Tese de doutoramento, Farmácia (Biologia Celular e Molecular), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Farmácia, 2013Inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs) are rare autosomal recessive disorders, showing a high allelic and phenotypic heterogeneity. The main therapeutic goal in these disorders is to restore the metabolic balance and, until now, most available therapies are not definitive and only alleviate the patients’ symptoms. In this work, three IMDs were analyzed, two organic acidurias, propionic and methylmalonic acidurias, and one aminoacidopathy, pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase. Organic acid disorders or organic acidurias (OAs) are characterized by the excretion of non-amino organic acids in urine. Two of the most common OAs are propion...