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n. - A B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia.

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  • 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...
  • Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) - for pernicious anemia only
  • 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...
  • 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...
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