Originally blood tests were introduced for medical reasons and for limiting misuse of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO). In this way it became possible to prevent athletes with haematocrit ...

The UCI has provisionally suspended three-time Polish U23 time trial champion Kacper Gieryk following a positive test for EPO during the ... the production of red blood cells, however, the former ...

Administration of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHumanEPO) improves sporting performance and hence is frequently ... with the same transcriptomic pattern observed in all participants. The ...