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Volume 19,
Issue 3, 2003 |
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Acylcarnitine |
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Structure of acylcarnitine intermediates in fatty acid
oxidation inside the mitochondria. For example, in MCAD deficiency the
accumulated acylcarnitine has a side chain containing 8 carbons, such that
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