Exercise test on the patients with normokalaemic periodic paralysis from a Chinese family with a mutation in the SCN4A gene

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 1915-1919

  Feng, Yu ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Liu, Zhong Ian ^a   Zhang, Chao Dong ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Exercise test; Normokalaemic periodic paralysis; Paramyotonia congenita; Skeletal muscle sodium channelopathy

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; GLUCOSE; METHIONINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL ALPHA4 SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG EFFICACY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; THOMSEN DISEASE;

EID: 54349103092     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00029330-200810010-00012     Document Type: Article

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