Vitamin B12

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

• PREFACEGerald Litwack1. INSERTION OF COBALT INTO TETRAPYRROLESJ.A. Morris, S. Lickey and M.D. Liptak2. APPLICATION OF BIOORGANOMETALLIC B12 IN GREEN ORGANIC SYNTHESISHisashi Shimakoshi3. COBAMIDE REMODELING,Amy T. Ma, Daniel S. Kantner and Joris Beld4. CUBILIN, THE INTRINSIC FACTOR-VITAMIN B12 RECEPTORRenata Kozyraki, Pierre Verroust and Olivier Cases5. MEMBRANE TRANSPORT OF COBALAMINMark Nijland, Jose Miguel Martinez Felices, Dirk J. Slotboom and Chancievan Thangaratnarajah6. VITAMIN B12 PHOTORECEPTORSS. Padmanabhan, Ricardo Perez-Castano, Lucia Osete-Alcaraz, Maria Carmen Polanco and Montserrat Elias-Arnanz7. PHOTOLYTIC PROPERTIES OF B12-DEPENDENT ENZYMES: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVEArghya Pratim Ghosh, Megan J. Toda and Pawel M. Kozlowski8. ANTIVITAMINS B12Berhard Krautler9. VITAMIN B12 ABSORPTION AND MALABSORPTIONJean-Louis Gueant, Rosa-Maria Gueant-Rodriguez and David H. Alpers10. INTRACELLULAR PROCESSING OF VITAMIN B12 BY MMACHC (CblC)Luciana Hannibal and Donald W. Jacobsen11. TELOMERE LENGTH AND VITAMIN B12Guruvaiah Praveen, Mudili Sivaprasad and G. Bhanuprakash Reddy12. VITAMIN B12 AND CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASEHenry H.L. Wu and Angela Y.M. Wang13. INHERITED DEFECTS OF COBALAMIN METABOLISMDavid Watkins and David S. Rosenblatt14. BEHAVIORAL PROFILE OF VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY: A REFLECTION OF IMPAIRED BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, NEURONAL STRESS AND ALTERED NEOPLASTICITYGregory Pourie, Jean-Louis Gueant and Edward Quadros15. VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY – CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCESRalph Green and Joshua Miller 16. METABOLISM-MEDIATED THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHY AND B12Hadi Goubran, Gaafer Ragab and Waleed Sabry17. NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS IN VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCYPrashant Sabu, Harish Thippeswamy and Santosh K. Chaturvadi18. VITAMIN B12 AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN NEMATODESWen-Sui Lo and Ralf J. Sommer19. DETERMINATION OF COBALAMIN AND RELATED COMPONDS IN FOODSF. Watanabe, T. Bito and K.