Ethanol: novel end product of vertebrate anaerobic metabolism.
During periods of short-term experimental anoxia, the goldfish produces metabolic carbon dioxide and does not accumulate lactate to the extent expected. The goldfish has evolved a novel pathway of vertebrate anaerobic metabolism in which glucose carbon is metabolized to ethanol and excreted.
D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism; D006054:Goldfish; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000378:metabolism; D007773:Lactates / Q000378:metabolism*; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008660:Metabolism; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*
D007773:Lactates; D000431:Ethanol