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Elevated blood harmane (1-methyl-9H-pyrido[3,4-b]indole) concentrations in essential tremor.
Neurotoxicology - 1 Mar 2008
Louis Elan D, Jiang Wendy, Pellegrino Kathryn M, Rios Eileen, Factor-Litvak Pam, Henchcliffe Claire, Zheng Wei
Abstract excerpt
Essential tremor (ET) is a widespread late-life neurological disease. Genetic and environmental factors likely play an etiological role. Harmane (1-methyl-9H-pyrido[3,4-b]indole) is a potent tremor-producing neurotoxin. In 2002, we demonstrated elevated blood harmane concentrations in an initial sample of 100 ET cases compared to 100 controls. Between 2002 and 2007, we assembled a new and larger sample of ET...
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