"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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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vitamin B 12" by people in Profiles.
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Subacute Combined Degeneration from Recreational Nitrous?Oxide?Inhalation. J Emerg Med. 2018 05; 54(5):e105-e107.
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Associations between intake of folate and related micronutrients with molecularly defined colorectal cancer risks in the Iowa Women's Health Study. Nutr Cancer. 2012; 64(7):899-910.
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Anaerobic biotransformation of high concentrations of chloroform by an enrichment culture and two bacterial isolates. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Oct; 76(19):6463-9.
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A candidate gene study of folate-associated one carbon metabolism genes and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Jul; 19(7):1812-21.
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Evaluation of topical vitamin B(12) for the treatment of childhood eczema. J Altern Complement Med. 2009 Apr; 15(4):387-9.
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Vitamins B2, B6, and B12 and risk of new colorectal adenomas in a randomized trial of aspirin use and folic acid supplementation. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Aug; 17(8):2136-45.
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Cosolvent effect on the catalytic reductive dechlorination of PCE. Chemosphere. 2004 Dec; 57(10):1505-14.
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Adsorption of vitamin B12 to alumina, kaolinite, sand and sandy soil. Water Res. 2003 Jul; 37(13):3189-93.
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Role of metalloporphyrin core metals in the mediated reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethylene. Environ Toxicol Chem. 2003 Mar; 22(3):525-33.
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High prevalence of cobalamin deficiency in Guatemalan schoolchildren: associations with low plasma holotranscobalamin II and elevated serum methylmalonic acid and plasma homocysteine concentrations. Am J Clin Nutr. 2003 Feb; 77(2):433-40.