Haematological and iron metabolism parameters in professional cyclists during the Giro d'Italia 3-weeks stage race

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 949-956

  Corsetti, Roberto ^a   Lombardi, Giovanni ^b   Lanteri, Patrizia ^b   Colombini, Alessandra ^b   Graziani, Rosella ^c   Banfi, Giuseppe ^b,d  

^a Liquigas Cannondale Medical Board ^*  (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

^c CEDAL Lab   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cycling; Haematology; Haptoglobin; Iron status; Reticulocytes

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CYCLING; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; GIRO D ITALIA; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRON METABOLISM; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; SPORT;

ADULT; ATHLETES; BICYCLING; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOPING IN SPORTS; HAPTOGLOBINS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; RETICULOCYTES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864405636     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2011-0857     Document Type: Article

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