After a heart attack, people often have small amounts of lactate in the blood, which comes from the injured heart muscle. Suggest an explanation for this observation.

 

Well, I know that during anaerobic respiration lactic acid or lactate (for what I presume is the same thing) is produced as a by-product of respiration. However I fail to see the connection here? I don't really want to assume things which I am not sure of.

 

 

Any help will be appreciated!

This strikes me as a homework question, so I'm not going to explicitly answer it. But here's a great whopping hint:

Myocardial infarction (MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart is interrupted.

What does blood carry, amongst other things?

 

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