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W. Kahlke
German scientist.
Associated eponyms:
Refsum's disease
A rare disorder characterized by phytanic acid accumulation in the blood and tissues.
Biography:
Bibliography:
- W. Kahlke, H. Wagener:
·Conversion of h3-phytol to phytanic acid and its incorporation into plasma lipid fractions in heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis.
Metabolism, New York, 1966, 15: 687-693.
- W. Stoffel and W. Kahlke:
The transformation of phytol into 3,5,11,15-tetra-methylhexadecanoic (phytanic) acid in heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis (Refsum’s syndrome).
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, New York, 1965, 19: 33.
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