Therefore, metabolic footprinting is a strategy for analysing the properties of cells or tissues by looking in a high-throughout manner at the metabolites that they excrete or take up from their surrounding.

• 也就是说，这是一种用高通量方法检测由细胞和组织分泌的代谢产物或从环境中吸收代谢物的定性和半定量的通用分析方法。