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“ Thiamine pyrophosphate and sodium dichloroacetate, substances which promote the aerobic metabolism of pyruvate, reduce the increase in lactate output induced by phenformin (100 mg/l) on the isolated and perfused rat pancreas.”
Comptes rendus des seances de la Societe de biologie et de ses filiales • 1977 | View Paper
“In the normal anesthetized dog, a cocarboxylase perfusion considerably reduced the increase in blood lactate and pyruvate levels provoked by the intraduodenal injection of phenformin (30 mg/kg); furthermore it seems to counteract the increase of the lactates/pyruvates ratio and opposes the fall in blood pH.”