Erythrocyte lactate production rate

The increase of lactic acid in the body is mainly due to the lack of blood oxygen, leading to aerobic oxidation of pyruvate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, an increase in the rate of glycolysis, that is, the rate of reduction of pyruvate to lactic acid increases, and the ratio of lactic acid to pyruvate in blood increases Increased lactic acid. Onset of hyperlactic acidemia. The measurement of lactic acid is generally performed by the whole blood lactic acid spectrophotometry or the plasma lactic acid colorimetric method.