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• n  a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells

• There are also some variants of human erythropoietin (EPO) and growth factor that cannot be easily identified.
• In 1989 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of recombinant human erythropoietin under the name Epoetin alfa.
• Next, they gave him high-potency formulations of iron supplements and vitamins, plus "industrial doses" of a blood-building drug, synthetic erythropoietin, that stimulates the bone .

News & Articles

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• Cycling-Jalabert gives up TV job following doping allegations
  PARIS, June 25 (Reuters) - Former Tour of Spain champion Laurent Jalabert has temporarily given up his consultancy job with French television and radio on the Tour de France following a report that he used banned substance erythropoietin in 1998, his employers said on Tuesday. "Laurent Jalabert wants to suspend his commentator activities until light is shed on the accusations he's facing ...
  June 25, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• France's Jalabert 'surprised' by doping allegations
  PARIS (Reuters) - Former Vuelta champion Laurent Jalabert expressed surprise on Monday at a French newspaper report which said he used the banned drug erythropoietin in 1998. "It's a surprise. Obviously I rode in the 1990s," Jalabert told French radio RTL, a station he is a pundit for. "As I said during my hearing at the Senate, I always trusted my three teams. "I'm taking a blow. I don't know ...
  June 24, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Cycling-France's Jalabert 'surprised' by doping allegations
  PARIS, June 24 (Reuters) - Former Vuelta champion Laurent Jalabert expressed surprise on Monday at a French newspaper report which said he used the banned drug erythropoietin in 1998. "It's a surprise. Obviously I rode in the 1990s," Jalabert told French radio RTL, a station he is a pundit for. "As I said during my hearing at the Senate, I always trusted my three teams. "I'm taking a blow. I don ...
  June 24, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Patrik Sinkewitz in AFP
  Doping started to interest me in 2000, I heard about erythropoietin (EPO) through the media and heard it was widespread,Sinkewitz told German daily the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. "I got information from several people including the trainer of...
• Jörg Jaksche in Daily Nation (registration)
  First it was cortisone then erythropoietin which became wide spread in training. When its testing was started out of competition I was introduced to blood doping,Jaksche, winner of Tour Mediterranean and Paris-Nice race in 2004, said.