Talk:Metabolite

What is a cocaine metabolite?
If something is a metabolite of cocaine, what does that mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.130.36.135 (talk • contribs) 16:02, November 1, 2006 (UTC)


 * It means that it is a byproduct of the cocaine molecule being changed and broken up into smaller parts in the body. __meco 18:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Table of examples
It feels somewhat out of place... --Limxzero (talk) 02:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Intermediate end product?
The introduction to this article writes, "A metabolite is the intermediate end product of metabolism". Are metabolites then, an intermediate, or an end product? The term is not clear.

A quick google search for "intermediate end product" (exact match) shows almost no references to this phrase either, so I don't think that it is a 'legitimate' term.

Proposed edit: "Metabolites are the intermediate products of metabolism." I'm refraining from putting this edit in, since I don't have the background to determine if this new phrasing is better than the current.

- NingOTI (talk)