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carbidopa

carbidopa Carbidopa is a substance that blocks the enzyme that converts levodopa into dopamine.

Carbidopa is a substance that blocks the enzyme that converts levodopa into dopamine. It is used in Parkinson disease to lessen levodopa’s effects outside the brain and does not have anti-parkinson effects on its own.

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