Apomorphine
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Broader Terms
antiparkinson drug, dopamine agonist, emetic, morphine
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- , apomorphine is actually an old drug that has been used in medical application for more than a century.
- Apomorphine is administered by injection or subcutaneous pump, unlike other dopamine agonists which are given in tablet form.
- Apomorphine is a dopaminergic drug.
- In these patients, Apomorphine is an established therapy that can avert and/or reduce the duration of these "off" periods and improve the patient's quality of life.
- Sajed 4th year Pharmacy Student, UCSF Apomorphine is a potent dopamine agonist originally used in the 1950s as an emetic for accidental poisonings.
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