Carbidopa, a drug in use for management of Parkinson disease inhibits T cell activation and autoimmunity

• Huabin Zhu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huabin Zhu, Henrique Lemos

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Henrique Lemos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huabin Zhu, Henrique Lemos

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Brinda Bhatt,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Bianca N. Islam,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Abhijit Singh,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ashish Gurav,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Lei Huang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Darren D. Browning,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Andrew Mellor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Sadanand Fulzele,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Nagendra Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nasingh@augusta.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2540-6990

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