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ea0029s35.3 | Endocrinology and the Olympics: Will hormones help to win? | ICEECE2012

Hormone abuse in sports: the knowns and unknowns

Thevis M.

Sports drug testing laboratories are facing multifaceted challenges including the misuse of naturally/endogenously occurring substances, non-approved/discontinued drug candidates, urine manipulation, etc. In order to enable the differentiation of licit drug use and/or the natural variation of hormone concentrations (due to e.g. legal interventions) from doping offences, best-possible analytical performance is required. Therefore, modern doping control analytical assays commonl...