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Hydroxocobalamin (OHCbl, or B12a) is a natural form or vitamer of vitamin B-12, a basic member of the cobalamin family of compounds. Hydroxocobalamin is the form of B12 produced by many bacteria which are used to produce the vitamin commercially. Like other forms of B12, hydroxocobalamin has an intense red color. It is not a form normally found in the human body, but is easily converted in the body to usable coenzyme forms of B12. Pharmaceutically, hydroxycobalamin is usually produced as a sterile injectable solution, and is used for treatment of the vitamin deficiency, and also (because of its afinity for cyanide ion) as a treatment for cyanide poisoning. Vitamin B12 is a term that refers to a group of compounds called cobalamins that are available in the human body in a variety of mostly interconvertible forms.

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