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. 2021 Jan 9;22(2):604. doi: 10.3390/ijms22020604

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Glucose metabolism as an equilibrium. One molecule of glucose is degraded to two molecules of lactic acid by the process of glycolysis. The reverse synthetic reaction, gluconeogenesis is the conversion of lactic acid to glucose. Meyerhof proposed that the breakdown and synthesis were in equilibrium [28].