Within-subject variation in hemoglobin mass in elite athletes

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 725-732

  Eastwood, Annette ^a,b   Sharpe, Ken ^c   Bourdon, Pitre C ^a,d   Woolford, Sarah M ^a   Saunders, Philo U ^e   Robertson, Eileen Y ^a   Clark, Sally A ^e   Gore, Christopher J ^b,e  

^a South Australian Sports Institute   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence   (Qatar)

^e AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

Author keywords

analytical variation; Antidoping; biological variation; erythropoiesis

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; DOPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ATHLETES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; DOPING IN SPORTS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858706219     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318238ea7f     Document Type: Article

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