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==Medical Implications== | ==Medical Implications== | ||
Diseases caused by mutations in sodium channels can come in many forms. Some mutations affect skeletal, cardiac or smooth muscle, while others affect neural function. Common diseases include long QT syndrome, hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, hypokalemic periodic paralysis, myotonia fluctuans and myotonia permanens among many others. <ref name ="dis">http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/mother/chan.html#SCN4A</ref> | Diseases caused by mutations in sodium channels can come in many forms. Some mutations affect skeletal, cardiac or smooth muscle, while others affect neural function. Common diseases include long QT syndrome, hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, hypokalemic periodic paralysis, myotonia fluctuans and myotonia permanens among many others. <ref name ="dis">http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/mother/chan.html#SCN4A</ref> | ||
===Role in infection=== | |||
Hemolysin lysis of red blood cells is a marker for many kinds of pathogenic infection characterized by... | |||
===Oncology=== | ===Oncology=== |