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DRUG TESTING AND ANALYSIS
卷 5, 期 4, 页码 266-269出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/dta.1450
关键词
sports testing; formoterol; threshold concentration; doping; mass spectrometry; urine
资金
- DIUE de la Generalitat de Catalunya [2009 SGR 492]
The use of formoterol in sports is allowed by inhalation at the maximum recommended therapeutic dose. Recently, a threshold concentration of 30ng.mL-1 was defined by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to distinguish between therapeutic and forbidden use of formoterol. The objective of this work was to evaluate that threshold concentration. Concentrations of formoterol were measured in urine samples collected after administration of 18 mu g of inhaled formoterol to five healthy volunteers, and in samples collected in routine doping tests belonging to athletes having declared inhaled formoterol use. Formoterol was detected up to 8h after administration in all volunteers with concentrations up to 19.6ng.mL-1. From 28 routine samples, 27 had less than 10ng.mL-1 of formoterol and only in one of the samples the concentration was 25ng.mL-1. Therefore, administration of formoterol by inhalation at the maximum dose allowed by WADA will not produce false positive results using a threshold concentration of 30ng.mL-1, and the experience up to now in routine doping tests indicates that the probability of obtaining urines with concentrations greater than 30ng.mL-1 is close to nil. For this reason, sports authorities should re-evaluate the need of a threshold concentration for formoterol and its practical usefulness. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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