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- noun chemistry Any of several substances depending on the upper axial ligand of the
cobalt ion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Aminoacidopathies (maple syrup urine disease; homocystinuria; cobalamin deficiencies; tyrosinemia; urea cycle defects (ornithine transcarbamylase, carbamyl phosphate synthase, citrullinemia, argininosuccinic aciduria, arginase deficiencies) and non-ketotic hyperglycinemia)
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The publications advocate use of the assay to identify a need for cobalamin/folate supplements.
Supreme Court Patent Decision -- Can Thinking Infringe a Patent? 2006
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These publications state that elevated total homocysteine correlates to cobalamin/folate deficiency and that this deficiency can be treated with vitamin supplements.
Supreme Court Patent Decision -- Can Thinking Infringe a Patent? 2006
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I take a B-100 supplement with 400 mcg of folic acid and 100 mcg of B12 as cobalamin.
Folic acid and cognitive impairment | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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A method for detecting a deficiency of cobalamin or folate in warm-blooded animals comprising the steps of:
The 271 Patent Blog Peter Zura 2005
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A method for detecting a deficiency of cobalamin or folate in warm-blooded animals comprising the steps of:
Archive 2005-10-01 Peter Zura 2005
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Again the intensities of the X-ray diffraction spectra were measured, Patterson and electron-density distributions were calculated, atoms belonging to the best known parts of the cobalamin molecule being placed first in the calculations.
Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964
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There followed directly an explanation of the observed great instability of the molecule to light and cyanide ions -- instability which had led to the failure of earlier investigations to recognise its existence and to isolate, in its place, cyano-cobalamin.
Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964
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Cobyric acid is the natural precursor of the most remarkable molecule of our series, Co-5'-deoxyadenosyl-cobalamin, the coenzyme discovered by Baker, which ought, most properly, to be called vitamin B12.
Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964
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In terms of this structure, one can begin to understand some of the uses to which the cobalamin nucleus is put in nature, for example, its part in the transfer of methyl groups.
Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964
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