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Ultrastructure of skin from Refsum disease with emphasis on epidermal lamellar bodies and stratum corneum barrier lipid organization.
Archives of dermatological research - 1 Oct 2014
Menon G K, Orsó E, Aslanidis Charalampos, Crumrine D, Schmitz G, Elias Peter M
Abstract excerpt
Classic Refsum disease (RD) is a rare, autosomal recessively-inherited disorder of peroxisome metabolism due to a defect in the initial step in the alpha oxidation of phytanic acid (PA), a C16 saturated fatty acid with four methyl side groups, which accumulates in plasma and lipid enriched tissue...
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