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Essential
for regulating vital functions and one of the important
buffers necessary to maintain normal acid-base balance
in the body. Body metabolism results in mainly acid production,
and neutralizing some of such acids is its constant activity,
thus it plays a key role in metabolic acidosis or alkalosis.
Bicarbonate may be lost through watery feces, or can decrease
when lungs cannot expel carbon dioxide. |
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