| 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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