Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jan 29, 2026

Small-Scale Colorimetric Assays of Intracellular Lactate and Pyruvate in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Published on: October 15, 2018
[Transfer of reduced equivalents in the cell: lactate excess]
Abstract:
The classical biochemical diagram that explains the part played by lactate in hypoxia is shortly recalled. The systems that insure the transfer of reducing equivalents of the cytoplasma towards the mitochondria (and conversely) are then described with full details. The excess lactate concept (XL) advanced by Huckabee (1958) in order to differentiate an hyperlactatemia with hypoxic genesis from an another one is object of discussion. This concept is false from the theoretical point of view and has no longer to be used nowadays.
Related Concept Videos
Pharmaceutical Equivalents
Equivalent Capacitance
The following strategies are adopted to calculate...
Equivalent Capacitance
Excess Pressure Inside a Drop and a Bubble
Thévenin Equivalent Circuits
Principle of Equivalence

