Overlooked confounding in studies of metabolite salts

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The anorectic and thermogenic effects of pharmacological lactate in male mice are confounded by treatment osmolarity and co-administered counterions.
Lund J, Breum AW, Gil C, Falk S, Sass F, Isidor MS, Dmytriyeva O, Ranea-Robles P, Mathiesen CV, Basse AL, Johansen OS, Fadahunsi N, Lund C, Nicolaisen TS, Klein AB, Ma T, Emanuelli B, Kleinert M, Sørensen CM, Gerhart-Hines Z, Clemmensen C. Lund J, et al. Nat Metab. 2023 Apr;5(4):677-698. doi: 10.1038/s42255-023-00780-4. Epub 2023 Apr 13. Nat Metab. 2023. PMID: 37055619

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