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Preferred term

Vitamin B 12  

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Entry terms

  • B12, Vitamin
  • Cyanocobalamin
  • Vitamin B12

Note

  • therapeutic use: coordinate disease with /drug ther, not /diet ther

Scope note

  • 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.

In other languages

  • B12-vitamiini

    Finnish

  • B12
  • Betolvex
  • syanokobalamiini
  • vitamiini B12
  • B12-vitamin

    Swedish

  • Cyanokobalamin
  • Kobalamin
  • Vitamin B12

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014805

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