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Sodium channel inactivation is impaired in equine hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.
Journal of neurophysiology - 1 May 1995
Cannon S C, Hayward L J, Beech J, Brown R H
Abstract excerpt
1. Equine hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (E-HPP) is a dominantly inherited disorder of muscle that causes recurrent episodes of stiffness (myotonia) and weakness in association with elevated serum K+. Affected horses carry a mutant allele of the skeletal muscle isoform of the Na channel alpha-subunit. To understand how this mutation may cause the disease phenotype, the functional defect in Na channel behavior...
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