AST Sports Science | Breaking Research 3-15-99

New test detects growth hormone use.

A new blood test has been developed that will enable the detection of human growth hormone use in athletes.

Athletes use growth hormone for its ability to increase muscle size, strength and physical performance.

Until now, it has been impossible to distinguish between natural growth hormone that is produced by the pituitary gland in the brain and synthetic growth hormone that has been injected. This has posed a dilemma in drug testing athletes. Growth hormone is banned by most competitive organizations including the IOC - International Olympic Committee but due to this substance being undetectable, enforcement has been nonexistent.

Dr. Christian Strasburger of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, and colleagues have developed a testing procedure that appears to be 100% accurate in detecting injected human growth hormone.

Strasburger and colleagues note that the test requires blood tests taken within 36 hours of the hormone being injected. This could police the use of growth hormone by athletes which is believed to wide spread throughout Olympic and professional competition.

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