lactate
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1. lactate - Noun
2. lactate - Verb
Meaning
A salt of lactic acid.
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The wetnurse suckled the infant
You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
Fermenation of pyruvate to lactate is sometimes also called "anaerobic glycolysis", however, glycolysis ends with the production of pyruvate regardless of the presence or absence of oxygen.
Additional tests might include a lactate dehydrogenase level (can be elevated in lymphoma).
It is only the lactate and the waste products of the citric acid cycle that are returned to the blood.
The NADH thus produced is primarily used to ultimately transfer electrons to O 2 to produce water, or, when O 2 is not available, to produced compounds such as lactate or ethanol (see Anoxic regeneration of NAD + above).