Cyanocobalamin Overview Cyanocobalamin (sye-AN-oh-koh-BAL-uh-min) is more commonly known as vitamin B12. At least three active forms of the vitamin are known. They include hydroxocobalamin and nitrocobalamin, in addition to cyanocobalamin, all with...

The simultaneous discovery of vitamin B12 by two research teams—one in the United States and one in England--was the culmination of an intensive worldwide search for a compound that could effectively treat pernicious anemia. Until the 1920s,...

Vitamin B12; 5,6-Dimethylbenzimidazolyl cyanocoamide Found in minute amounts in higher plants (compared with animal sources, where it is produced by bacteria in the colon). Haematopoietic vitamin, used to treat pernicious anaemia, where absorption...

Cyanocobalamin is an especially common "vitamer" (that is, member of a family of vitamins, all of which have some particular nutritional activity in preventing some vitamin deficiency disease). In the case of the B-12 vitamin family (see Vitamin B-12),...

Abstract: Objectives: The aim of this trial was to demonstrate the efficacy of one month of oral cobalamin (vitamin B12) therapy in elderly patients with cobalamin deficiency related to food-cobalamin malabsorption (FCM). Patients and method: Twenty elderly patients (mean age: 78 ± 17 years)...

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this trial was to demonstrate the efficacy of one month of oral cobalamin (vitamin B 12) therapy in elderly patients with cobalamin deficiency related to food-cobalamin malabsorption (FCM). PATIENTS AND METHOD: Twenty elderly patients (mean age: 78+/-17 years) with...