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Exercise test on the patients with normokalaemic periodic paralysis from a Chinese family with a mutation in the SCN4A gene.
Chinese medical journal - 5 Oct 2008
Feng Yu, Zhang Ying, Liu Zhong-lan, Zhang Chao-dong
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BACKGROUND: Normokalaemic periodic paralysis (normoKPP) is characterized by transient and recurrent myoasthenia, and some patients also show muscle stiffness induced by cold exposure (paramyotonia congenita, PMC). It is caused by a mutation in the muscle voltage gated sodium channel alpha subunit...
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