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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 685328, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/685328
Review Article
Physiology and Pathophysiology of CLC-1: Mechanisms of a Chloride Channel Disease, Myotonia
1Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10051, Taiwan
2Center for Neuroscience and Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
Received 26 April 2011; Revised 18 July 2011; Accepted 10 September 2011
Academic Editor: Lars Larsson
Copyright © 2011 Chih-Yung Tang and Tsung-Yu Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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