MCELLBI C44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Olympic Oath, Hematocrit, Hemoglobin
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The olympic creed: the most important thing in the olympic games is not to win but to take part. [] the essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well. Olympic oath: a member of team says the oath on behalf of the team promising not to cheat. The drug that lance armstrong and others doped themselves with does not make them stronger, but just gives them the capacity to recover more quickly from intense training. So what it really did was make him recover faster so he could train more. Take blood out, concentrate the red blood cells. But it can become so high that the rbcs will clog vessels and person has a stroke. Synthetic oxygen chemical that binds and release oxygen to muscles even more effectively than rbcs. Won cross-country skiing in the olympics by significant. Short protein secreted by kidney, goes to bone marrow to make new blood cells.