Ingestion of designer supplements produced positive doping cases unexpected by the athletes

Biology of Sport

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 153-157

  Parr, M K ^a   Pokrywka, A ^b   Kwiatkowska, D ^b   Schanzer W ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Institute of Sport National Research Institute   (Poland)

Author keywords

Designer steroid; Doping; GC MS; Supplement

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155148732     PISSN: 0860021X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5604/959289     Document Type: Article

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