Energy and respiration
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- Created on: 21-04-15 16:49
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- RhEPO (Recombinant Erythropoeitin)
- Biological Disadvantages
- Kidney disease/failure
- Increased risk of thrombus/blood clotting
- Increased risk of heart attack/or failure
- Myocardial infarction
- Increased risk of stroke
- Transitory ischaemic attack
- The muscle responsible for producing and releasing EPO is the kidney
- Procedure of using RhEPO
- EPO is genetically engineered
- Creates RhEPO
- The RhEPO is put into the blood stream and targets bone marrow
- Increases red blood cell count
- Means more haemoglobin and therefore more oxygen
- Red blood cells increase within a few days
- Athlete can be able to carry out aerobic respiration
- Red blood cells increase within a few days
- Means more haemoglobin and therefore more oxygen
- Increases red blood cell count
- The RhEPO is put into the blood stream and targets bone marrow
- Creates RhEPO
- EPO is genetically engineered
- What is RhEPO?
- It is an artificial synthetic copy of erythropoietine
- Acts as a naturally occurring hormone found in the body
- It produces the same results as blood doping
- Long distance performers benefit most from this
- It is illegal
- Advantages of using RhEPO
- Endurance athletes use this so they can have a higher rate of aerobic respiration
- This means athletes can work at higher levels without making/producing too much lactic acid. This generally reduces fatigue
- More oxygenated blood can be delivered to working muscle cells
- Improvements in an athletes performance over four weeks would match those expected over several weeks
- Biological Disadvantages
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