Central core disease of muscle definition - medical term
One of the cond itions that produces 'floppy
baby' syndrome. CCD causes hypotonia (floppiness) in the newborn baby, slowly progressive
muscle weakness, and muscle cramps after exercise. Muscle biopsy shows a key diagnostic
finding (absent mitochondria in the center of many type I muscle fibers). CCD is
inherited as a dominant trait. The CCD gene is on chromosome 19 (and involves ryanodine
receptor-1).
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