Erythropoietin

makes a substantial difference in athletic performance, the use of the drug can be medically dangerous. Steroids are outlawed by organizations that govern professional sports. The different substances of PED’s are stimulants, anabolic steroids and erythropoietin. Athletes take these drugs to make them standout and have an advantage over others. The use of performance enhancing drugs is not accidental; athletes have a choice to whether or not they will take the drug. Once one is on the drug,…

Abstract Introduction A 2-year and 7-month-old girl is undergoing several treatments to attenuate the effects of type 2 Gaucher disease on her health. She has been diagnosed with type 2 Gaucher disease since she was three months old and several symptoms have appeared during that short lap of time. Case presentation In a type 2 Gaucher disease patient, the lysosomal enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase undergoes mutation and is therefore unable to break down glucocerebroside into ceramide and glucose.…

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing my colleague Mary “Beth” Upham for the quarterly nursing newsletter. Beth and I have worked together in the hemodialysis unit for 5 years, and I have always heard bits and pieces about her thirty eight years as a hemodialysis nurse. She carries a wealth of knowledge and experience, and shared with me stories about how things “used to be”. She is using her knowledge and experience to develop a PD program along with Dr. J Tang, Nephrologist and Donna…

Gynecomastia, pimples and oily skin. Clinically Anadrol comes about used to give treatment to the general population who are experiencing iron deficiency and have less red platelets. It is by all accounts extremely accommodating in enhancing the erythropoietin (hormone) which is dynamic in producing red…

2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 22 individual stage wins, although he was convicted of using performance enhancing with forfeited his titles. He finally admitted doping in 2013. Lance Armstrong used several performance enhancing drugs including Erythropoietin (EPO) which increases the production of red blood cells which increase oxygen production resulting in improved performance. Testosterone is a male hormone which acts like a steroid; it encourages muscle growth and…

In my opinion, the human body is one of the most complex mechanisms known to mankind – even more complex than the latest iPhone X. The human body comprises of many different systems: the digestive system, the endocrine system, the exocrine system, the muscular system, the urinary system, the reproductive system, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, the sympathetic system, the skeletal system. The human body consists of about 300 bones at birth and this number decreases to 206 by…

Writing Curtis Kasinski 1/21/17 Affects Of PED Use In Sports PED’s (performance enhancing drugs) have the ability to dramatically alter a person’s body and biological functions. There are many different kinds of PED’s available for use. One popular kind of PED are anabolic steroids. On the bright side, these steroids are used by doctors to treat muscle-wasting diseases such as an HIV infection. But on the other hand anabolic are used by athletes to gain an edge on there opponents.…

Performance enhancing drugs cause heart problems, deformities, and sometimes death. Steroids are just one type of the dangerous PEDs the world has. Steroids can be anabolic, produces muscle growth, or synthetic, man made (Mayo Clinic Staff). Anabolic effects in men include forming breasts, baldness, shrunken testicles, infertility, impotence, and many more that can be serious and lead to cancer (Mayo Clinic Staff). Anabolic effects in women include a deeper voice, increased body hair, baldness,…

I. The clinical presentation of the disease. According to the National Institute of Health, fatigue is the most common symptom of every type of anemia. The fatigue is caused by a decrease in red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Other anemia symptoms due to decreased oxygen carrying capacity are: shortness of breath, dizziness, headache, coldness in hands and feet, pale skin, and chest pain ("What Is Iron-Deficiency Anemia?," 2014). The erythrocytopenia causes the heart to exert…

We found that cyclist Lance Armstrong was guilty of using EPO on several accounts. Erythropoietin, also know as EPO, is a drug used medically to treat anemia. This advancement in medicine has helped save lives but unfortunately professional athletes, like Armstrong, have used it to help improve their performance. The earliest claims of doping was with Gastone Nencini in the 1960 Tour De France. Around this time athletes would store blood and wait for the body to replace the loss blood.…