Hepatocytes convert lactate to pyruvate because they have enough oxygen to break it down, unlike muscle cells when oxygen is scarce.
Hepatocytes convert lactate to pyruvate because they have enough oxygen to break it down, unlike muscle cells when oxygen is scarce.
| Front | Suggest why lactate is converted into pyruvate by the hepatocytes (liver cells) rather than by the respiring cells in which it is produced. |
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| Back | hepatocytes have sufficient O2 to break lactate down (unlike muscle cells if O2 levels low) |
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