Progressive muscle atrophy with hypokalemic periodic paralysis and calcium channel mutation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 120-124

  Meyer, Thomas ^a   Jurkat Rott, Karin ^b   Huebner, Angela ^c   Lehmann Horn, Frank ^b   Linke, Peter ^a   Van Landeghem, Frank ^a   Dullinger, Jörn S ^a   Spuler, Simone ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; CACNA1S; Calcium channel; Hypokalemic periodic paralysis; Progressive muscle atrophy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 37749023652     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20825     Document Type: Article

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