Pharmacology, doping and sports
Subtitle: a scientific guide for athletes, coaches, physicians, scientists and administrators
By: edited by Jean L. Fourcroy.
Contributors: Fourcroy, Jean L.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415428453
Subjects: Doping in sports; Doping in Sports -- methods; Anabolic Agents -- adverse effects; Doping in Sports -- ethics; Steroids -- adverse effects; Substance Abuse Detection -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Historical and scientific background / Fourcroy/ Pittinger; title: Ensuring quality results in a global testing system / Bowers; title: Anabolic steroids / Clark; title: Testing for anabolic agents / Ayotte; title: THG, gestrinone, and trenbolone the art of ferreting out a designer steroid / Bowers; title: Isotope ratio mass spectrometry: carbon isotope ratio analysis / Aguilera; title: Stimulants, diuretics and masking of doping in sports / Hildebrand; title: The development of the erythropoietin (EPO) tests / Lasne; title: Erythrocyte volume and human performance / Sawka, Muza, Young; title: Growth hormone, secretogogues, and related issues / Holt, Sonksen; title: Gene doping / Friedmann; title: Therapuetic gene use / Fourcroy; title: Doping and its impact on the the healthy athlete / Pipe; title: The ethics of biomedical enhancement: the case of drugs and sport / Murray.