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. 2020 Mar 10;14:44. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2020.00044

Table 1.

Summary of neurological symptoms in neurological and peroxisomal disorders that arise as a result of peroxisomal dysfunction.

Neurological disorder Peroxisomal protein/function affected Neurological result
Alzheimer disease Plasmalogen production Lowered plasmalogens in the brain, increase in peroxisomal density and VLCAS in gyrus frontalis; peroxisome loss correlated with tau (Santos et al., 2005; Kou et al., 2011)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) enzyme DAO inactivity; increase in D-serine (Kondori et al., 2017, 2018)
Oxaliplatin neuropathy models Catalase expression and amount Lipid peroxidation; neuropathic phenotype in an animal model (Zanardelli et al., 2014)
Post-stroke dementia D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) enzyme Increase in DAO in patient plasma levels (Chen et al., 2019)∣rule
Peroxisomal disorder Peroxisomal gene affected Neurological result
Adult Refsum disease PHYH Phytanic acid buildup, anosmia, polyneuropathy, hearing and vision loss (Wanders et al., 2011; Wanders and Poll-The, 2017; Gettelfinger and Dahl, 2018)
Infantile Refsum disease PEX1, PEX3, PEX6, PEX12, PEX26 Phytanic acid buildup, hypomyelination, hearing and vision loss, polyneuropathy (Warren et al., 2018)
Neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy PEX1, PEX2, PEX3, PEX5, PEX6, PEX10, PEX11β, PEX12, PEX13, PEX14, PEX16, PEX19, PEX26 Buildup of VLCFAs, seizures, hearing loss, neuropathy (Aubourg et al., 1986)
Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata PEX7; PEX5 (short isoform) Epilepsy, seizures, cataracts, neuroregression (Purdue et al., 1999; Malheiro et al., 2015; Landino et al., 2017)
Zellweger syndrome PEX1, PEX2, PEX3, PEX5, PEX6, PEX10, PEX11β, PEX12, PEX13, PEX14, PEX16, PEX19, PEX26 Limited neuronal migration, issues with myelination and brain development (Waterham and Ebberink, 2012; Klouwer et al., 2015)