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Functional consequences of a Na+ channel mutation causing hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.
Neuron - 1 Apr 1993
Cummins T R, Zhou J, Sigworth F J, Ukomadu C, Stephan M, Ptácek L J, Agnew W S
Abstract excerpt
Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP), one of several inheritable myotonic diseases, results from genetic defects in the human skeletal muscle Na+ channel. In some pedigrees, HYPP is correlated with a single base pair substitution resulting in a Met replacing Thr704 in the fifth transmembrane segment of the second domain. This region is totally conserved between the human and rat channels. We have introduced the...
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