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Why does L-DOPA cause hypotension?
L-DOPA is administered in Parkinson's Disease as a prodrug to dopamine which it is converted to in the central nervous system.
However Dopamine is used as a vasopressor, and L-DOPA is associated with hypotension.
How does this work? I speculate that…
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