Definition of lactate
: a salt or ester of lactic acid
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Detecting compounds in saliva like lactate, which is important in monitoring critical care patients, as well as athletes during training, could be simpler to achieve.
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Also contained within the pellets are the bacteria's food source: calcium lactate.
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To get the best picture of how hard a workout is, the professionals analyze the amount of lactate in the blood.
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To precisely map how glucose and lactate move around in the eye, Hurley and colleagues grew human RPE in a lab dish and studied its biochemistry along with that of isolated mouse retinas.
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Scientists understand that cancer cells support their rapid reproduction by rewiring their metabolisms to take glucose, ferment it and produce lactate.
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Under examination, floatation therapy has turned up encouraging results in reducing blood pressure and cortisol levels, reducing blood lactate levels after intense exercise, and other physiological improvements.
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Human sweat contains many different metabolites, including lactate, amino acids and fats, as well as sodium.
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The study shows that lactate is not only present, but also necessary, for every step in cancer’s development.
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First Known Use of lactate
circa 1794
Definition of lactate
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The study, published in Nature Communications in May, also noted that the new moms lactated, evidence of the follicles’ normal hormone production.
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The mouse mothers also lactated normally, a sign that the follicles in their ovaries were producing the correct amount of hormones.
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The cow-woman was kept continually lactating like a commercial dairy cow.
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Here, too, a female that wasn’t reproductively available would stop lactating when her nursing infant was killed and become fertile again—giving the infanticidal male a chance to mate with her.
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The cancer cells inefficiently convert far less of the glucose into ATP, or energy, converting about 70 percent of it to lactate as a byproduct, according to Warburg’s observation.
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San Jose Animal Care Center, which responded to the accident, discovered that the coyote was lactating.
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A lack of food sources available to lactating mothers close to Channel Islands sea lion breeding grounds led to mass strandings starting in 2013.
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Poole believes the female under which the infant hid, which had swollen breasts from lactating, was its mother.
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Origin and Etymology of lactate
Latin lactatus, past participle of lactare, from lact-, lac
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First Known Use: circa 1889
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of a woman or a female animal : to produce milk
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