A toxic substance with the chemical formula 1-methyl-4-phenyl- 1, 2, 6-tetrahydropyridine.
A toxic chemical, exposure to which causes Parkinson's disease symptoms in some intravenous drug users. It is now used to produce Parkinson's symptoms in laboratory animals in order to study the disease.
a chemical produced during an attempt to make a synthetic narcotic. MPTP destroys the cells of the substantia nigra and produces a condition that mimics Parkinson's disease.
A toxic chemical, exposure to which can lead to Parkinson's.
A neurotoxin, found in a "designed" opiate called "China white," which kills the neurons that make dopamine, producing a set of symptoms that look like Parkinson's disease.
drug which destroys dopaminergic neurons
A toxic molecule that causes damage to the nervous system, resulting in Parkinson's Disease.
MPTP (1-methyl 4-phenyl 1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine) is a chemical that is related to the opioid analgesic drugs. MPTP itself does not have any opioid effect, but it may be produced accidentally during illicit manufacture of MPPP, a synthetic opioid with effects similar to those of heroin and morphine.
