Stability of haematological parameters and its relevance on the athletes biological passport model

Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1033-1042

  Lombardi, Giovanni ^a   Lanteri, Patrizia ^a   Colombini, Alessandra ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^b   Banfi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood; Drug abuse; Sports; Sports medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ATHLETE; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; DOPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

ATHLETES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DOPING IN SPORTS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80755171429     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11591460-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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