Abstract
Summary
The excised muscle of scorbutic guinea pigs suspended in an equal volume of phosphate buffer plus glucose, produces only half as much lactic acid as the muscle of normal animals. Addition of 100 mg ascorbic acid to 100 g of muscle had no effect upon the rate or the final amount of lactic acid produced, neither with normal nor with scorbutic muscle.
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