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Inherited erythermalgia: limb pain from an S4 charge-neutral Na channelopathy.
Neurology - 14 Nov 2006
Choi Jin-Sung, Dib-Hajj Sulayman D, Waxman Stephen G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Inherited erythermalgia (also termed "erythromelalgia"), characterized by episodic burning pain in the distal extremities evoked by warmth, has been causally linked with mutations of the Na(v)1.7 sodium channel, which is preferentially expressed in nociceptors. Thus far, Na(v)1.7 mutations within intracellular linker parts of the channel have been physiologically characterized. OBJECTIVE: To...
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