And what happens to the liver cell or what happens to these lactate molecules in liver cells is known collectively as the chloride cycle and we'll focus on that in much more detail in a future lecture. So lactate essentially goes into these liver cells. Now, once lactate goes into the liver cell, the lactate is transformed into Pyruvate and that can go in many different directions. The Pyruvate, if we're, for instance, exercising the Pyruvate can be used to actually form the glucose and then the glucose goes back into the bloodstream to actually maintain that level, the proper glucose level in our blood. But if we're not exercising, then the lactate is transformed into Pyruvate and then that is transformed into glucose phosphate which then goes and we store it as glycogen. Now, if we do need glucose molecules, or if we do need ATP molecules, the Pyruvate can actually go into the mitochondria as in this case in this case, and form those ATP molecules that are needed by the cell, the liver cells to actually carry out the many different types of processes.