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High-throughput and Comprehensive Drug Surveillance Using Multisegment Injection-Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry
Published on: April 23, 2019
Evolving concepts and techniques for anti-doping
Theodore Friedmann1, Ulrich Flenker, Costas Georgakopoulos
1University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, CNCB, Room 122, La Jolla, CA 92093-0634, USA. tfriedmann@ucsd.edu
Abstract:
Technical advances are being made in many areas of biotechnology and genetics that are facilitating the detection of doping in sport. These improvements have been catalyzed by the need to counter the ever-increasing sophistication of the community of athletes and their retinues who are intent on the illicit use of physical, pharmacological and genetic tools and methods to enhance athletic performance, in contravention of established international ethical and legal standards and of international treaty. The methods described in this article present a partial and general picture of only some of these advances.
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