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

doi:10.1016/s0960-8966(97)00046-1

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

Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Jun 1997

Ptácek L J

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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...

Topics

Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Central Nervous System Diseases
Humans
Ion Channels
Movement Disorders
Mutation
Myotonia
Paralysis
Periodicity

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