Athlete's biological passport: To test or not to test?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1393-1395

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Plebani, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antidoping testing; Biological passport; Doping; Sports

Indexed keywords

ANTIANEMIC AGENT; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; PEGINESATIDE;

ACCURACY; ATHLETE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOPING; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW;

ATHLETES; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DOPING IN SPORTS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; OXYGEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052827175     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.658     Document Type: Review

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