Essays Tagged: "Erythropoietin"

The Kidney

the pH of the blood. Kidneys play important roles in other bodily functions, such as releasing the erythropoietin protein, and helping to control blood pressure.Kidneys are paired, reddish-brown, bea ...

(2 pages) 51 0 4.0 Apr/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Blood Doping - Effects on Athletes

(6 pages) 105 0 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Performance Enhancing Drugs

and Francoise Lasne has developed a urine test that can detect a performance-enhancing drug called erythropoietin. What erythropoietin does is boost the althetes performance in endurance sports. For ... the althetes performance in endurance sports. For example the Tour de France, skiing, and football. Erythropoietin increases the delivery of oxygen to tissues. De Ceaurriz and Francoise Lasne develope ...

(1 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Should athletes take performance enhancing drugs?

w technology has been developed and extremely effective drugs and chemicals have been made such as, Erythropoietin (EPO), Anabolic Steroids, Peptides, Creatine, Human Growth Hormones and simply protei ... g. 2014. <http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/creatine-side-effects-what-it-what-it-does>.EPO"Erythropoietin." Wikipedia . Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Aug. 2014. Web. 14 Aug. 2014. <http://en.w ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology