Vitamin B12

Present Knowledge in Nutrition: Tenth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 343-358

  Stabler, Sally P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired vitamin B12 deficiency, and acquired malabsorption; B12 analog from true B12 distinction, lesion in demyelination of B12 deficient NS; Human deficiency, megaloblastic anemia, demyelinating neurologic syndromes; Isolated malabsorption of vitamin B12, and pernicious anemia; Metabolic abnormalities in vitamin B12 deficiency; Methionine metabolism pathway, crucial methyl donor after activation to SAM; Vitamin B12; Vitamin B12 (cobalamin), methionine synthase and L methylmalonyl CoA mutase; Vitamin B12 deficiency, build up of methylmalonic acid and homocysteine; Vitamin B12 dependent enzyme reactions

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EID: 84886991420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119946045.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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