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“Abstract Intermittent Schilling tests and daily 57Co-labeled vitamin B12 administration and analyses of urinary and fecal radioactivity revealed that colchicine given by mouth decreased vitamin B12 absorption in all except one normal subject, and this effect was greatest when colchicine was delivered by tube into the ileum.”
“ Colchicine appears to induce reversible vitamin B12 malabsorption by altering the function of ileal mucosa.”
Clinical and experimental rheumatology • 2013 | View Paper
“Attachment of colchicine to cobalamin is expected to increase the therapeutic index of the drug by limiting the side effects caused by the current nonselective administration of tubulin-targeted chemotherapeutic drugs.”
Advances in clinical chemistry • 1985 | View Paper
“ Colchicine can induce the malabsorption of vitamin B12 and other nutrients.”
“The quantity of IF-B12 receptor and the amount of vitamin B12 absorbed increased markedly to greater than normal levels during recovery from a 3-day course of colchicine.”