6. What is not a physiological effect of using steroids?
Death of hepatic tissue
Raised osmotic pressure
Inhibition of collagen formation
Blood volume decreases
Thickening of left ventricle
Type II diabetes
7. What type of athletes would benefit from using a dose similar to therapeutic dose?
Endurance and sprint
Sprint
Endurance
Power athletes
8. Why is natural, isolated testosterone ineffective if injected or taken orally?
It is attacked by immune system for being a foreign substance
Metabolised by liver
Enters the lymph system
9. Sport dosages may be how many times more than therapeutic recommended doses?
100
10
1000
500
10. What is the injection of a substance in a vehicle that tends to keep it at the site of injection so that absorption occurs over a prolonged period of time?
Cycling injection
Depot injection
Pyramid injection
11. What is the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone found in plasma?
15:1
6:1
12:1
20:1
12. What is NOT a side effect for women?
Hirsutism
Water retention
Deepening of voice
Gynaecomastia
Genital reconfiguration
13. Where is testosterone NOT formed?
Leydig cells
Pituitary gland
Adrenal cortex
14. Would a therapeutic dose be larger or smaller than what is used in sport?
Much larger
Much lower
A bit larger
A bit lower
15. What administration regime is preferred by body builders?
Stacking
Cycling
Blocking
Pyramiding
16. Which administration regime follows a period of admin then a period of abstinence?
Cycling
Stacking
Pyramiding
Blocking
17. What is a dosage followed by in males to re-stimulate endogenous testosterone production?
Human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG)
Leydig cells
Haemoglobin
Erythrocytes
18. What part of the cell does testosterone enter to have its effects?
Lysosomes
Mitochondria
Nucleus
Rough ER
19. What is NOT an administration regime of steroids?
