Severe hypokalemic myopathy in Gitelman's syndrome

✍ Scribed by Nelson L.S. Tang; Joannie Hui; K.F. To; H.K. Ng; N.M. Hjelm; T.F. Fok

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 758 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-639X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199904)22:4<545::aid-mus25>3.0.co;2-w

✦ Synopsis

SHOUNOUSUI AND THE BLINK REFLEX

Leon-S and colleagues compared the pattern of the electrically evoked blink reflex before and after application of a mixture named shounousui to the forehead for a maximum of 45 min in five subjects. 6 After application the R3 decreased, whereas R1 and R2 remained unchanged. The authors concluded that C fibers are the main afferent