Vitamin B12 could be a "Master Key" in the regulation of multiple pathological processes

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-69

  Volkov, Ilia ^a   Press, Yan ^a   Rudoy, Inna ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cobalamin; Vitamin B12; Vitamin B12 supplementation

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; AMNESIA; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; BLOOD VESSEL; BONE GROWTH; BONE MARROW; BURN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD GROWTH; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; HIP FRACTURE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; PARESTHESIA; PARKINSONISM; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PSYCHOSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SKIN; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; STRESS; TREMOR; TROPHIC ULCER;

ANIMALS; AVITAMINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DOGS; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 33646096447     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.73.65     Document Type: Review

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