Herbert Hill
Herbert Hill

An imposter molecule may be misleading doctors who monitor dopamine levels in their patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Washington State University Regents Professor Herbert Hill used a new, high-speed technology to discover a previously unknown compound in the brains of affected rats that looks just like dopamine on standard diagnostic tests.

The finding suggests that doctors who think they are measuring dopamine levels may actually be measuring levels of its “identical twin.”

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