Phytanic acid and pristanic acid, branch
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Nicol Kruska; Georg Reiser
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Article
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2011
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The accumulation of the two branched-chain fatty acids phytanic acid and pristanic acid is known to play an important role in several diseases with peroxisomal impairment, like Refsum disease, Zellweger syndrome and ฮฑ-methylacyl-CoA racemase deficiency. Recent studies elucidated that the toxic activ