Antoku Y, Sakai T, Goto I, Katafuchi Y, Sato H, Iwashita H, Kuroiwa Y
Acta Neurol Scand. 1985 Aug;72(2):193-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1985.tb00863.x.
The saturated fatty acids released from the erythrocyte membranes of four patients with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and 14 diseased controls were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography. The ratios of C26:0 to other saturated fatty acids in ALD were higher than those of diseased controls, and neither false-positive nor false-negative samples were observed. These results suggest that a study of fatty acids of total glycerophospholipids in erythrocyte membranes by high performance liquid chromatography is a useful diagnostic method of ALD.