Sports drug testing: Analytical aspects of selected cases of suspected, purported, and proven urine manipulation

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-32

  Thevis, Mario ^a   Geyer, Hans ^a   Sigmund, Gerd ^a   Schänzer, Wilhelm ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beer; Doping; Mass spectrometry; Methylene blue; Sport

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTERONE; BETACYANIN; BETANIN; CARBOHYDRATE; EPITESTOSTERONE; ETIOCHOLANOLONE; HEMOGLOBIN; HORDENINE; ISOBETANIN; METHYLENE BLUE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; DOPING; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SPORT; URINALYSIS;

DOPING IN SPORTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 80054021474     PISSN: 07317085     EISSN: 1873264X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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