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Absorption and Transport of Vitamin B 12
Author(s) -
Gräsbeck Ralph
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of haematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.907
H-Index - 186
eISSN - 1365-2141
pISSN - 0007-1048
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1975.tb00903.x
Subject(s) - skepticism , vitamin b , chemistry , computational biology , medicine , vitamin , philosophy , biology , biochemistry , epistemology
S ummary . A review of recent advances is presented, mostly dealing with physiological mechanisms and the chemical and functional properties of the transport proteins. A new nomenclature is proposed for the R‐proteins and transcobalamin II. Scepticism is expressed as to whether we are warranted in accepting the different R‐proteins as separate entities.