"Vitamin B 12" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A cobalt-containing coordination compound produced by intestinal micro-organisms and found also in soil and water. Higher plants do not concentrate vitamin B 12 from the soil and so are a poor source of the substance as compared with animal tissues. INTRINSIC FACTOR is important for the assimilation of vitamin B 12.
| Descriptor ID |
D014805
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.578.840.437.777 D03.633.400.909.437.777 D04.345.783.437.777
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| Concept/Terms |
Vitamin B 12- Vitamin B 12
- B 12, Vitamin
- Vitamin B12
- B12, Vitamin
- Cyanocobalamin
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vitamin B 12" by people in Profiles.
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Functional characterization of a vitamin B12-dependent methylmalonyl pathway in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: implications for propionate metabolism during growth on fatty acids. J Bacteriol. 2008 Jun; 190(11):3886-95.
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Naturally occurring cobalamins have antimalarial activity. J Inorg Biochem. 2007 May; 101(5):764-73.
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Hyperhomocysteinaemia, thrombosis and pernicious anaemia. Thromb Haemost. 2006 Aug; 96(2):233-5.
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Haematological condition of the San (Bushmen) relocated from Namibia to South Africa. S Afr Med J. 1994 Jul; 84(7):416-20.