date:Dec 11, 2020
tively low cost. A local industry could prepare L-DOPA from tomatoes because its soluble and you can do extractions. Then you could make a purified product relatively low tech which could be dispensed locally.
Parkinsons disease is a growing problem in developing countries where many people cannot afford the daily $2 price of synthetic L-DOPA .
L-DOPA is an amino acid precursor of the neuro-chemical dopamine and is used to compensate for the depleted supply of dopamine in Parkinsons disease pa