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- noun medicine Any
inherited disease caused by amutation in thegenes thatcode forion channel subunits or theproteins thatregulate them.
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Examples
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The condition has since been identified as channelopathy, a protein irregularity that can lead to chronic fatigue.
ESPN.com 2010
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And what the heck is channelopathy and why is that not as bad as mitochondrial disorder to an outfielder anyway?
bird randomness 2009
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And what the heck is channelopathy and why is that not as bad as mitochondrial disorder to an outfielder anyway?
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Dr. Jacob Levitt, an associate professor at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and himself a periodic paralysis patient: In brief, it is a neuromuscular ion channelopathy where the voltage gating gets perturbed due to a mutation such that imbalances in potassium, inside and outside the cell, cause the voltage gate to shut off, rendering the muscle membrane inexcitable and thereby causing paralysis.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com M.D. David Katz 2011
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The former Hendricken star has seen his playing career heavily disrupted by channelopathy, an illness that sapped his energy.
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The former Hendricken star has seen his playing career heavily disrupted by channelopathy, an illness that sapped his energy.
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For patients suspected of having a cardiac channelopathy or cardiomyopathy
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He missed all of the 2005 season, not because of channelopathy but due to severe knee and elbow injuries.
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Baldelli has no problems this spring with his condition of channelopathy, which causes excessive muscle fatigue.
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This offseason, additional tests showed that Baldelli didn't have a mitochondrial disorder and instead had channelopathy - a less severe illness.
Knuckle Curve 2009
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