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Plugging a 50-y/o paper on redox modulation of the dopamine receptor. Proctor P, McGinness JE. "Levodopa side-effects and the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome". Lancet. 1970;687:1367.
Peter H Proctor MD, PhD
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Peter H Proctor MD, PhD
@peterproctor
Clinical Pharmacologist Toxicologist, ABMT. Papers & patents on oxidative stress, redox signaling from 1970. Now working on #Covid.
- Replying to @peterfrankopanTrumps thought processes are so disordered that he can't do anything in a purposeful ordered way. Stated-simply, there is no method to his madness. So we cannot even hope for that. Corporate presidents with frontal-temporal dementia are notorious for running their
- "Mother's little helper"=meprobamate IIRC, amphetamines only became "controlled" some time in the early 1960's. Inhalers even later.
- Replying to @AcynI'm a an MD, PhD, physician toxicologist and drug developer. This is the biggest pile of horse-sh!t I have seen in months of horseshit.
- Replying to @CensoredMenIn the middle of a war, a rock can look a lot like a grenade.
- Replying to @jtrebachYou can imagine when I first saw the acronym "SOB" in a chart. We were all neophytes once. BTW, SOB means "shortness of breath". What did you think it meant?
- Europe surrendered its colonies 50+years ago. Russia still actively chases the imperial chimera.
- Replying to @KremlinTrollsBright blue suit and tie at a funeral. Only Trump would dare compete with the main guest of honor.
- Replying to @highbrow_nobrowSo the robber that breaks into your house, steals your stuff and kills you wife and kids is not the "Bad guy"? Pretty much at odd with the definition of good and evil I learned from my mom and dad.
- Replying to @RyanMarinoAs a fellow ABMT-certified toxicologist, I concur with Dr Marino. This is a flat miscarriage of justice.
- Replying to @front_ukrainianA shame on all of us. Trump plays the bully when his victim is vulnerable, a la Zelensky-- who in real life is one of the bravest people around. His TV career was similarly based upon taking some social, economic, or educational superior of his audience and humiliating them
- "..The United States has so far provided military aid to Ukraine that amounts to roughly a tenth of its total annual defense budget. In return, one of America’s most dangerous enemies has sacrificed almost all of its existing soldiers and the bulk of its armor. The courage of the
