Clinical features and advances in the genetics of periodic paralysis.

Abstract excerpt

Periodic paralysis (PP) is a group of ion channel diseases with incomplete autosomal dominant inheritance, except in sporadic patients. Ion channel gene mutations cause transient abnormalities in skeletal muscle excitability and muscle weakness. Different mutation sites cause different pathogenesis, which is very important for the classification, clinical manifestations, treatment and prognosis of periodic...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Calcium Channels
• Share to Calcium Channels, L-Type
• Share to KCNJ2 gene