levodopa (l-dopa)

A Placebo-Controlled Trial of AQW051 in Patients With Moderate to Severe Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia

Authors: Claudia Trenkwalder, Daniela Berg, Olivier Rascol, Karla Eggert, Andres Ceballos-Baumann, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Alexander Storch, Lin Zhang, Jean-Philippe Azulay, Emmanuel Broussolle, Luc Defebvre, Christian Geny, Michal Gostkowski, Fabrizio Stocchi, Christine Tranchant, Pascal Derkinderen, Franck Durif, Alberto J Espay, Andrew Feigin, Jean-Luc Houeto, Johannes Schwarz, Thérèse Di Paolo, Dominik Feuerbach, Hans-Ulrich Hockey, Judith Jaeger, Annamaria Jakab, Donald Johns, Gurutz Linazasoro, Paul Maruff, Izabela Rozenberg, Judit Sovago, Markus Weiss, Baltazar Gomez-Mancilla

Journal: Movement Disorders

Year Published: 2016

Background: This phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluated the efficacy and safety of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α7 agonist AQW051 in patients with Parkinson’s disease and levodopa-induced dyskinesia. Methods: Patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease and […]

AFQ056 in Parkinson patients with levodopa-induced dyskinesia: 13-week, randomized, dose-finding study

Authors: Fabrizio Stocchi, Olivier Rascol, Alain Destee, Nobutaka Hattori, Robert A Hauser, Anthony E Lang, Werner Poewe, Mark Stacy, Eduardo Tolosa, Haitao Gao, Jennifer Nagel, Martin Merschhemke, Ana Graf, Christopher Kenney, Claudia Trenkwalder

Journal: Movement Disorders

Year Published: 2013

AFQ056 is a novel, selective metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 antagonist. This was a 13-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Patients with Parkinson’s disease and moderate-to-severe levodopa (l-dopa)-induced dyskinesia who were receiving stable l-dopa/anti-parkinsonian treatment and were not currently […]

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