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Chapter 10, Problem 5IA
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The reason that why the paralysis may disappear quickly when potassium ions are administered intravenously in people who inherit familial periodic paralysis that develop very low blood potassium concentrations.

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Familial periodic paralysis is a disease in which the there is a loss of muscle a tendon reflex, which is due to the failure of nerves present in muscles to respond against the electrical stimulations.

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