Metabolism: Conscious decoupling

Nature Reviews Cancer 17, 708 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrc.2017.113 Author: Ulrike Harjes Aerobic metabolism is assumed to rely predominantly on glucose as fuel for the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and mitochondrial respiration. Hui et al. showed that lactate derived from the circulation can predominantly fuel the TCA cycle in most tissues. They investigated circulatory fluxes of
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