Doping and EPO
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Despite the ban for this purpose,
the erythropoéïtine (EPO) is used by athletes to improve performance, because
this substance can increase the number of red blood cells and enhances the
possibilities of oxygenation of the body.
This is done at the expense of blood
flow and can cause thrombosis see hypertension.
After EPO injection, occurs
stimulation of red blood cell production.
This increase in red blood cells
begins to occur 3-4 days after injection ..
It is even stronger than the EPO
dose is important.
The same phenomenon is observed
during a stay aloft for 6 continuous weeks at 3000 meters.
HEMATOCRIT (see this term) that
exceeded 50%.
At the 50% risk of serious
complications is obvious.
Besides thrombosis and hypertension,
may occur circulatory slowdown due to hyperviscosity.
The maximum heart rate is affected
and the ability of diffusion of oxygen to the muscle.
Various physical exercises help
accelerate the skin of cardiac output, which allows a certain extent to avoid
the phenomenon of thrombosis.
Currently it seems that athletes who
dope instead use low doses of EPO daily.
You should know that the life of red
blood cells is about three months and increase the values of hematological
indices extend this period.
It seems that the administration of
EPO is mainly used in endurance sports.
Finally, be aware that some batches
of EPO (of dubious origin) are of questionable quality and immunological
reactions, with the production of human antibodies antiérythropoïétine were
noted.
It was also noted serious autoimmune
diseases and even death.
From the point of view of the
detection of this type of doping there is a beam matching arguments for a high
probability of fraudulent use of EPO: hematocrit, hemoglobin, reticulocyte
numbers (see this term), soluble transferrin receptors .
It seems that the detection of
urinary EPO used as doping is possible due to different isoelectric point
between these recombinant EPO and natural EPO.
recombinant EPO having an
isoelectric point of 4.42 to 5.11 while the natural EPO would have an
isoelectric point of 3.92 to 4.42
More natural EPO has more acid bands
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