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Physiology and pathophysiology of CLC-1: mechanisms of a chloride channel disease, myotonia.
Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology - 1 Jan 2011
Tang Chih-Yung, Chen Tsung-Yu
Abstract excerpt
The CLC-1 chloride channel, a member of the CLC-channel/transporter family, plays important roles for the physiological functions of skeletal muscles. The opening of this chloride channel is voltage dependent and is also regulated by protons and chloride ions. Mutations of the gene encoding CLC-1 result in a genetic disease, myotonia congenita, which can be inherited as an autosmal dominant (Thomsen type) or an...
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