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Pain disorders and erythromelalgia caused by voltage-gated sodium channel mutations.
Current neurology and neuroscience reports - 1 Feb 2012
Dabby Ron
Abstract excerpt
Voltage-gated sodium channels play a pivotal role in pain transmission. They are widely expressed in nociceptive neurons, and participate in the generation of action potentials. Alteration in ionic conduction of these channels causes abnormal electrical firing, thus renders neurons hyperexcitable. So far, mutations in the Na(v)1.7 sodium channel, which is expressed in the dorsal root ganglia cells and sympathetic...
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