Channelopathies: ion channel disorders of muscle as a paradigm for paroxysmal disorders of the nervous system.

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Some of the most common diseases in humans occur intermittently in people who are otherwise healthy and active. Such disorders include migraine headache, epilepsy, and cardiac arrhythmias. Because electrical signals are critical to the function of neurons, muscle cells, and heart cells, proteins that regulate electrical signaling in these cells are logical sites where abnormalities might lead to disease. All of...

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