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What sport benefit from blood doping?
Distance running has been notorious for its epo blood doping scandals in recent years.
Can epo be used to bring up a hgb of 7 percent in a patient who refuses a blood transfusion?
Yes it can, and this trick is often used to prep people who refuse blood transfusions before surgery.
How is the drug epo made?
Why do you want to know how to make EPO?! it's not good 4 you and doping is a seriously NOT cool thing 2 do!! Please reconsider, and train harder. No shortcuts boy....
How do you blood dope?
there are different techniques used to cheat via blood altering. one is a blood transfusion that some atheletes used to do basically to give them more blood hence more haemoglobin and a better ability to transport oxygen to the muscles = faster runner. EPO (erythropoietin) is a hormone that regulates red blood cell production and if atheletes take it they will have more red blood cells.
What are the disadvantages of the sport performance enhancing drug EPO?
EPO increase the amount of red blood cells unnaturally. This will make your brain believe that something is always giong to make red blood cells. This means you will reproduce red blood cells a lot slower than usaual if you dont take EPO. You will get unfit relly quickly if you take EPO and then not take it.
Which techniques are used to identify drug presence in blood?
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If the body has lost blood what hormone should be released?
EPO
How does EPO improve athletic performance?
Epo improves athletic performance by, releasing when oxygen is low, epo stimulates the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells, therefore increasing oxygen supply.
How is an erythropoietin test done?
The EPO test requires a blood sample.
Why would athletes abuse erythropoietin?
It stimulates the production of red blood cells, and as a result an athlete's blood would be able to carry more oxygen to feed working muscles, which would be a competitive advantage.Erythropoietinstimulates the production of red blood cells so that the blood would be able to supply working muscles with more oxygen. This can be a major advantage in all sports with a height in endurance.Erythropoietin (EPO) is a hormone that naturally occurs in the body to regulate red blood cell production (primarily, but it has other uses). When athletes take EPO they do it to increase the amount of red blood cells in the blood stream and thus transfer more oxygen to their muscles. This simulates having trained at a high altitude and is why it is called blood doping.
What are examples of blood doping?
"Blood Doping" is when an athlete removes about a quart of their own blood and freezes it so it doesn't die. Once the blood has grown back into the body the extracted blood is put back in, giving the athlete more red blood cells to carry oxygen to the muscles. This also results in more carbon dioxide being removed from the blood, giving the athlete more energy and stamina.
How can you make red blood cells travel faster in your body?
The body secretes a hormonecalled erythropoietin (or EPO) which stimulates the production if red blood cells (RBC's). EPO is purified and made commercially available. In an emergency where there is a lot of blood loss, or in patients who are chronically anemic, EPO is administered so the body may produce more RBC's
