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Descriptor English: Phytanic Acid
Descriptor Spanish: Ácido Fitánico
Descriptor ácido fitánico
Scope note: Ácido graso de 20 átomos de carbono de cadena ramificada. En la tesaurismosis por ácido fitánico (ENFERMEDAD DE REFSUM) este lípido puede constituir hasta el 30 por ciento del total de los ácidos grasos del plasma. Se debe este fenómeno a deficiencia de la ácido fitánico alfa-hidroxilasa.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ácido Fitânico
Descriptor French: Acide phytanique
Entry term(s): Acid, Phytanic
Tree number(s): D02.455.849.291.515
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010831
Scope note: A 20-carbon branched chain fatty acid. In phytanic acid storage disease (REFSUM DISEASE) this lipid may comprise as much as 30% of the total fatty acids of the plasma. This is due to a phytanic acid alpha-hydroxylase deficiency.
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Registry Number: 14721-66-5
CAS Type 1 Name: Hexadecanoic acid, 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-
Previous Indexing: Diterpenes (1974)
Fatty Acids (1970-1974)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under EICOSANOIC ACIDS 1975-90
History Note: 91(75); was see under EICOSANOIC ACIDS 1975-90
DeCS ID: 11263
Unique ID: D010831
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/11/19
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Phytanic Acid - Preferred
Concept UI M0016816
Scope note A 20-carbon branched chain fatty acid. In phytanic acid storage disease (REFSUM DISEASE) this lipid may comprise as much as 30% of the total fatty acids of the plasma. This is due to a phytanic acid alpha-hydroxylase deficiency.
Preferred term Phytanic Acid
Entry term(s) Acid, Phytanic



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