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Title Doping in sports / Detlef Thieme, Peter Hemmersbach, editors
Published Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 540 pages) : illustrations
Series Handbook of experimental pharmacology, 0171-2004 ; v. 195
Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; v. 195.
Contents History of doping and doping control -- Biochemical and physiological aspects of endogenous androgens -- Phase-II metabolism of androgens and its relevance for doping control analysis -- Detecting the administration of endogenous anabolic androgenic steroids -- Synthetic anabolic agents: steroids and nonsteroidal selective androgen receptor modulators -- Nandrolone: a multi-faceted doping agent -- Designer steroids -- Growth hormone -- Mass spectrometry-based analysis of IGF-1 and hGH -- Insulin -- [Beta]-adrenergic stimulation -- Erythropoietin and analogs -- Blood transfusion in sports -- Athlete's biological passport and indirect markers of blood doping -- Masking and manipulation -- Hormonal growth promoting agents in food producing animals -- Some aspects of doping and medication control in equine sports -- Androgenic anabolic steroid abuse and the cardiovascular system -- Side effects of anabolic androgenic steroids: pathological findings and structure-activity relationships -- Gene doping -- Science and the rules governing anti-doping violations
Summary Doping in sports and the fight against it has gained increasing attention. This book covers the pharmacological basis for a possible performance enhancement in competitive sport through the administration of prohibited substances and methods as well as the analytical disclosure of such practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In Springer eBooks
Subject Doping in sports.
Doping in sports -- Prevention
Sports -- Drug use
Steroids -- Side effects
Toxicology.
Biochemistry.
Medical jurisprudence.
Doping in Sports -- prevention & control
Substance Abuse Detection -- methods
Anabolic Agents -- adverse effects
Steroids -- adverse effects
Doping in Sports
Toxicology
Biochemistry
Forensic Medicine
toxicology.
biochemistry.
forensic medicine.
SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction.
Sciences de la vie.
Biomédecine.
Doping in sports
Doping
Leistungssport
Form Electronic book
Author Thieme, Detlef.
Hemmersbach, Peter.
ISBN 9783540790884
3540790888