Effects of age and gene dose on skeletal
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Sita Reddy; Dilaawar J. Mistry; Qing Cai Wang; Lisa M. Geddis; Howard C. Kutchai
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Myotonic muscular dystrophy (DM) is characterized by abnormal skeletal muscle Na channel gating and reduced levels of myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK). Electrophysiological measurements show that mice deficient in __Dmpk__ have reduced Na currents in muscle. We now find that the