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Lactic acid metabolism

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Digestive Physiology and Metabolism in Ruminants

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Fifty years ago Cori and Cori1 3 directed the attention of biochemists to differences in the metabolism of lactic acid isomers in the rat, and in 1964 Dunlop and associates1 9 described D-Iactic acidaemia in the bovine after overloading the rumen with carbohydrates — possibly the first ‘isomeric disease’. Since then authors like Dirksen, Huber, Juhasz and others have contributed markedly to the knowledge of pathogenesis of lactic acidosis. A full account of rumen acidosis and its clinical consequences has been given elsewhere1 7.

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Giesecke, D., Stangassinger, M. (1980). Lactic acid metabolism. In: Ruckebusch, Y., Thivend, P. (eds) Digestive Physiology and Metabolism in Ruminants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8067-2_25

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