Limits and pitfalls of Athletés Biological Passport

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1417-1421

  Banfi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Athlete's biological passport; Athletes; Blood doping; Hemoglobin; Reticulocytes

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DECISION MAKING; DOPING; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETICULOCYTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFACTS; ATHLETES; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DOPING IN SPORTS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052829996     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.633     Document Type: Article

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