Lactate serves as a substrate for glucose synthesis in the body. This set of met

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Lactate serves as a substrate for glucose synthesis in the body. This set of metabolic pathways does not occur in the muscles, rather in the liver The reason for this is tor gluconeogenesis are blood enzymes are required for converting lactate into pyruvate prior to moving into the liver o lactate is not soluble in the muscle and therefore cannot be metabolized in the muscle /the liver is the only tissue that produces lactate, which is used for glucose synthesis oxygen is not present in the muscle, which is required tor gluconeogenesis

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Option first is the correct answer. Lactate produced by anaerobic respiration move to the liver where lactate first convert into pyruvate and then into glucose. This proces requires enzymes which are present in liver in large quantity.

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