PEOPLE with Parkinson’s disease who rely on injections to fight off severe symptoms might one day be able to take a pill instead.
In the later stages of the disease, sufferers can go through debilitating periods when their bodies freeze into position, even if they are taking l-dopa or other drugs for their condition. Apomorphine, a dopamine mimic, is often used as a quick fix for these problems. But apomorphine has to be injected, which is awkward and painful. If taken as a pill, it flushes straight out of the body.
So Håkan Wikström’s group at the University of Groningen…
