Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance produced by metabolism.
- noun A substance necessary for or taking part in a particular metabolic process.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A product of or substance resulting from metabolism, especially from retrograde metabolism, or catabolism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol Chem.) A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
substance produced by, or taking part in, ametabolic reaction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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First they took cerebral spinal fluid from 132 juvenile rhesus monkeys and analyzed it for a serotonin metabolite, called 5-HIAA, that’s considered a reliable indicator of how much serotonin the nervous system is processing.
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First they took cerebral spinal fluid from 132 juvenile rhesus monkeys and analyzed it for a serotonin metabolite, called 5-HIAA, that’s considered a reliable indicator of how much serotonin the nervous system is processing.
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For example, phenoxybenzamine (Dibenzyline®), a drug given to relieve hypertension, is biotransformed into a metabolite, which is the active agent.
Biotransformation 2008
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This agent was not described as metabolite in report, but it should be noted that diazepam breaks down into oxazepam.
Anna Nicole Smith Autopsy: Abused Growth Hormone, Killed by Sleeping Aid. 2007
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The case focuses on a patent that covers the concept of adjusting the dosage of a drug, thiopurine, based on the concentration of a particular chemical called a metabolite in the patient's blood.
Ars Technica Timothy B. Lee 2011
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The machine was not calibrated to recognize there can be an interfering substance, known as metabolite, which exists naturally in the metabolism of some patients and in rare instances can interfere with cyclosporine causing the machine to show artificially low levels of the drug.
The Telegram: Local News Barb Sweet 2010
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This is in contrast to the pharmacokinetics of Clopidogrel's active metabolite, which is affected by genetic variations in CYP2C19.
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At times of stress, he argues, we are physiologically in "survival mode", prompting the release of testosterone and its bioactive metabolite, DHT.
Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011
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Wang and his coauthor, Dr. Robert Gerszten, are co-inventors on patent applications related to metabolite predictors of diabetes.
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Wang and his coauthor, Dr. Robert Gerszten, are co-inventors on patent applications related to metabolite predictors of diabetes.
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