Methyl-B 12 is absorbed by an intestinal mechanism using intrinsic factor and by a diffusion process in which approximately 1% of the oral dose is absorbed. The human physiology of vitamin B 12 is complex, and therefore is prone to mishaps leading to vitamin B12 deficiency.ecause intrinsic factor is crucial for the normal absorption of B 12, its lack in pernicious anemia causes a vitamin B12 deficiency. Many other subtler kinds of vitamin B 12 deficiency and their biochemical effects have since been elucidated.
Gail Levin, âEdward Hopperâs Nighthawks, Surrealism, and the War,â Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, 2 (1996), pp. 180-95, fig. 1. The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 85, ill.
Analysis of Guernica by Pablo Picasso. One of the most famous 20th century paintings, Guernica was created by Picasso to express his outrage over the Nazi bombing of a Basque city in northern Spain, ordered by General Franco. Since then, this monumental black-and-white canvas has become an international symbol of genocide committed during wartime.