{"id":1701,"date":"2014-05-25T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T00:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2014-05-28T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:08:10","slug":"sports-new-method-to-detect-xenon-in-athletes-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/sports-new-method-to-detect-xenon-in-athletes-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"New method to detect xenon in athletes&#8217; blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have developed a new method that can detect xenon in blood samples from athletes up to 24 hours after the effect of the drug has worn off. During the Winter Olympics in Sochi, rumours spread that some Russian athletes inhaled the noble gas xenon, which studies have shown can stimulate the production of erythropoietin (EPO) and testosterone. On May 18, 2014, the World Anti-Doping Agency <\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/playtrue.wada-ama.org\/news\/wada-foundation-board-approves-code-implementation-and-compliance-reporting-plans\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=wada-foundation-board-approves-code-implementation-and-compliance-reporting-plans\" target=\"_blank\">added xenon<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> to its list of prohibited substances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/rcm.6926\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em>Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 25, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mario Thevis, German Sport University Cologne, Germany<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new method that can detect xenon in blood samples from athletes up to 24 hours after the effect of the drug has worn off. During the Winter Olympics in Sochi, rumours spread that some Russian athletes inhaled the noble gas xenon, which studies have shown can stimulate the production of erythropoietin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1597,51,53,1598,1494],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-doping","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-olympics","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-rr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}