Muscle channelopathies: channel types

Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .

Muscle channelopathies: channel types. Myotonia congenita. Fully referenced neurology checklist.

Chloride

  • Myotonia congenita

Sodium

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Calcium

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Potassium

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References

  1. Rakowicz W, Hanna M. Muscle ion channel diseases. ACNR 2003; 3:14-16.
  2. Platt D, Griggs R. Skeletal muscle channelopathies: new insights into the periodic paralyses and nondystrophic myotonias. Curr Opin Neurol 2009; 22:524-531. 
  3. Horga A, Raja Rayan DL, Matthews E, et al. Prevalence study of genetically defined skeletal muscle channelopathies in England. Neurology 2013; 80:1472-1475. 
  4. Spillane J, Kullmann DM, Hanna MG. Genetic neurological channelopathies: molecular genetics and clinical phenotypes. JNNP 2016; 87:37-48. 
  5. Kullmann DM, Waxman SG. Neurological channelopathies: new insights into disease mechanisms and ion channel function. J Physiol 2010; 588:1823-1827.

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