$50,000 There is a small amount of anecdotal experience and some neuroscience studies suggesting that levodopa might have therapeutic effect on the symptoms of AS. The Angelman mouse model is an ideal way to study this before developing any human […]
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$50,000 This grant supported a trial of levodopa-carbidopa treatment on AS mice. Levodopa is a dopamine precursor that is converted to dopamine in the brain and is commonly used as a treatment for Parkinson disease. AS mice and normal controls […]
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$72,855 ASF has previously supported work at understanding if levodopa might have a potential therapeutic role in AS. This grant provides partial support to a larger clinical trial study which is aimed at implementing a controlled trial of levodopa supplementation […]
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