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  • noun biochemistry cobalmin.

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  • noun a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia

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Examples

  • I speak as a former vegetarian whose life was destroyed by supplementing with the wrong cobalamin, the inactive cyanocobalamin which is very stable and very ineffective in many peolple.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) - for pernicious anemia only

    Chapter 31 1993

  • It is clear that the molecule is present in the form of aquo - or hydroxy-cyanide, where the cyanide group replaces the nucleotide in cyanocobalamin and the water molecule the cyanide group 17.

    Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964

  • Again an important part in the analysis was played by our having a view of the corrin nucleus surrounding the cobalt atom in quite different crystals, the cyanocobalamin crystals and also some, or perhaps

    Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964

  • The X-ray scattering effect of sulphur is roughly one sixth of that of the rest of the molecule of cephalosporin C, approximately the same as that of cobalt in relation to vitamin B12, cyanocobalamin.

    Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964

  • The coenzyme, a few years ago obtainable with difficulty in milligram quantities, can now be prepared very easily from cyanocobalamin -- Dr. Lester Smith has made crystals 0.5 cm across.

    Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964

  • Vitamin B-12 (as cyanocobalamin/methylcobalamin complex) 125 mcg

    Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010

  • B12 (cyanocobalamin) maintains red blood cells, is important for metabolism and the maintenance of the central nervous system, and helps to make DNA.

    News 2010

  • First, some autism cases seem to be related to problems converting the usual cyanocobalamin form of vitamin B12 to the methylcobalamin form the brain uses.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • Vitamin B-12 (as cyanocobalamin/methylcobalamin complex) 125 mcg

    Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010

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  • Oooh, points to WordNet for its delicious use of pernicious.

    October 2, 2009