The present study was instituted to determine whether children with congenital heart disease have abnormal blood levels of lactate and pyruvate and to determine whether a relation exists between ...

Pyruvic acid, the simplest α-ketoacid, plays a central role in sugar metabolism. It is the product of glycolysis, the anaerobic decomposition of glucose. In muscle, it is reduced to lactic acid during ...

LIPMANN has recently reported 1 that adenylic acid is partially phosphorylated to adenosino polyphosphate by preparations of Bacterium Delbrückii in the presence of acetylphosphate, and suggested that ...