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Ethanol: novel end product of vertebrate anaerobic metabolism
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 11, 1980
Abstract:
During periods of short-term experimental anoxia, the goldfish produces metabolic carbon dioxide and does not accumulate lactate to the extent expected. The goldfish has evolved a novel pathway of vertebrate anaerobic metabolism in which glucose carbon is metabolized to ethanol and excreted.