Alanine then is formed into glutamate, and then that breaks down into pyruvate and ammonium. So ultimately, what happened is the ammonium that we used here or that we formed here, eventually made its way to the liver. And it's the liver that uses the urea cycle to basically help our body dispose of this toxic substance. Also notice, though, that we form pyruvate and it's in the liver that we undergo gluconeogenesis. It's in the liver where we undergo gluconeogenesis. And so pyruvate is used to form glucose.