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RELATIONSHIPS between vitamin B6 and B12 were demonstrated first of all by Hsu and Chow1, who have shown a partial impairment in the absorption of vitamin B12 of adult rats deficient in pyridoxine. This fact might be caused, at least in part, by a decrease in the secretion of gastric juice and intrinsic factor, as Yeh et al.2 had directed to our notice in B6 deficiency.
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MARCHETTI, M., TESTONI, S. Relationships between Vitamin B6 and B12. Nature 198, 1087–1088 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981087a0
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