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pharmacology: active metabolite


When a metabolite of a drug produces a therapeutic effect it is considered an active metabolite. Carisoprodol and primidone, for example, become meprobamate and phenobarbital, respectively, both active drugs in their own right.

Also: inactive metabolite, prodrug



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