Doping in Sports: Old Problem, New Faces

Hormones as doping in sports.

Though we may still sing today, as did Pindar in his eighth Olympian Victory Ode, "… of no contest greater than Olympia, Mother of Games, gold-wreathed Olympia…", we must sadly admit that today, besides blatant over-commercialization, there is no more ominous threat to the Olympic games than doping. Drug-use methods are steadily becoming more sophisticated and ever harder to detect, increasingl...

Old and new faces of the nucleolus

Submitted 23 September 2008; accepted 17 November 2008; published online 12 December 2008 Although the primary function of this prominent nuclear organelle is in ribosome biogenesis, a growing body of evidence indicates that it also participates in other aspects of RNA processing, as well as in the regulation of mitosis, cell growth and death, stress responses and the cell cycle (Fig 1). Indeed...

New Trends of Doping in Sport

Cardiovascular adverse effects of doping in sports.

Stabilometry in Sports Medicine & Doping Studies

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