Lactate is the end product of the cytosolic metabolism of glucose, and its accumulation in the blood signals an increase in production or a decrease in utilization, or both. The liver is a major site ...

In this paper, [4] the authors studied a community-based cohort of patients with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and a postdiagnosis serum creatinine measurement who were receiving care in the ...

Credit: Thinkstock Sodium bicarbonate is the most common treatment, but it has notable limitations, particularly in terms of patient adherence. Sodium bicarbonate has some down sides, but there are ...

MET/HGF Coexpression as a Novel Predictive Biomarker for Response to MET Inhibitor Therapy in a Case of Psammomatous Melanotic Schwannoma ...

A recent study by University Medicine Halle shows how sepsis can lead to dysfunction of vascular smooth muscle cells. The researchers found that elevated lactate levels and acidosis, which can occur ...

Metabolic acidosis is a type of acidosis, which occurs when the blood is more acidic than what's considered healthy. A normal blood pH is between 7.37 and 7.43 on a scale of 0 to 14 — 0 being the most ...