Common mechanism underlies many diseases of excitability

Monday, December 28, 2009 - 18:14 in Biology & Nature

Inherited mutations in voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) are associated with many different human diseases, including genetic forms of epilepsy and chronic pain. Theodore Cummins and colleagues, at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, have now determined the functional consequence of three such mutations.

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