[Periodic paralysis, myotonia].

Abstract excerpt

Certain muscular disorders with functional abnormalities as their major clinical features have been considered to be attributable to disturbance of the membrane transport system. Among such diseases, myotonia congenita was first detected to have decreased chloride conductance in 1960s, and muscle chloride channel localized in chromosome 7q was confirmed to be the genetic site of the lesion in 1992. As for...

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