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Homoserine (medicine) and congenital paramyotonia (medicine)


Homoserine (medicine)


homoserine


An amino acid which is used by plants and bacteria to make methionine, threonine, and isoleucine (three of the twenty amino acids used to make proteins). Homoserine is similar to the amino acid serine (another of the twenty amino acids used to make proteins), except it has an extra methylene group. It is also formed when cystathionine is metabolised into the amino acid cysteine (another of the twenty amino acids used to make proteins).


congenital paramyotonia (medicine)


congenital paramyotonia
Paramyotonia congenita, a nonprogressive myotonia induced by exposure of muscles to cold; there are episodes of intermittent flaccid paralysis, but no atrophy or hypertrophy of muscles; autosomal dominant inheritance. There is a variant autosomal dominant form in which cold is not a provoking factor.

Synonym: Eulenburg's disease.