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Different effects of mexiletine on two mutant sodium channels causing paramyotonia congenita and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Jan 2000
Weckbecker K, Würz A, Mohammadi B, Mansuroglu T, George A L, Lerche H, Dengler R, Lehmann-Horn F, Mitrovic N
Abstract excerpt
Effects of the antiarrhythmic and antimyotonic drug mexiletine were studied on two sodium channel mutants causing paramyotonia congenita (R1448H) and an overlap paramyotonic and hyperkalemic paralytic syndrome (M1360V). Channels were expressed in human embryonic kidney cells and studied electrophysiologically, using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. Compared to the wild-type, channel, both mutants showed...
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