D.J. Cooper 1, K.R. Walley, P.M. Dodek, E Rosenberg and J.A. Russell 1Program of Critical Care Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada V6ZIY6 Received: 31 May 1991; accepted: 5 February 1992 Abstract. Plasma ionized calcium [Ca § ] concentrations are decreased in patients having lactic acidosis. To further investigate […]
IAN R. HOLZMAN, ANTHONY F. PHILIPPS, AND FREDERICK C. BATTAGLIA’27’ Division of Perinatal Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA Summary Fifteen human placentas were obtained at term. Placental fragments were incubated in a bicarbonate-buffered Earle’s solution. Additions of glutamate (1 mM) or glutamine (1 […]
Stefan Walenta and Wolfgang F. Mueller-Klieser A number of studies have shown that malignant transformation is associated with an increase in glycolytic flux and in anaerobic and aerobic cellular excretion. Using quantitative bioluminescence imaging in various primary carcinomas in patients (uterine cervix, head and neck, colorectal region) at first diagnosis of the disease, we […]
Philip J. Derbyshire • Hugh Barr • Frank Davis • Seamus P. J. Higson Abstract This review provides a critical overview of the literature published in the area of lactate in human sweat between 1934 and the present. The first section summarizes the relevant pieces of literature, the second evaluates the literature across a […]