Exogenous lactic acid is readily used for the work performance of the heart, with its consumption positively related to myocardial oxygen consumption, unlike glucose.
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Hypothesis-generating for cardiac lactate preference in animals; leaves open relevance to human myocardial energetics.
Alella et al. (1956) studied this question.
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