[Muscle channelopathies. Myotonias and periodic paralyses].

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The myotonias and familial periodic paralyses are muscle channelopathies. They have in common an impaired muscle excitation that is caused by mutations in voltage-gated Na(+), K(+), Ca(2+), and Cl(-) channels. Membrane hyperexcitability usually results in myotonic stiffness; with increasing membrane depolarization hyperexcitability can be transiently turned into hypoexcitability causing transient weakness as in...

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