FIG. 2.
Acidosis of blood during P. berghei malaria. Serum lactate (A), HCO3− (C), and glutamate (D) levels were measured for groups of five mice at zero time and on days 4 and 6 of P. berghei malaria. The blood pH (B) was measured in a separate set of experimental animals. Similar results were obtained in duplicate experiments. In addition, the results for controls used in the experiments whose results are shown in Fig. 5 were similar. An asterisk indicates statistical significance (P < 0.05) for a comparison of a group of infected mice and uninfected controls.