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-EPO – What is it?

• EPO is a naturally produced chemical made in the human kidneys. The cells in the kidney are sensitive to low oxygen concentration in the blood stream and releases EPO to stimulate bone marrow to produce more red blood cells.

-EPO – What are they used for?

• EPO was designed in 1989 and is used to treat certain forms of anemia (e.g., due to chronic kidney failure). Since then it • has been used to help treat people with cancer and HIV patients who are undergoing debilitating AZT treatment.

-EPO – How do you use it?

• Instead of blood doping athletes can take the more direct route and shot EPO directly into the blood stream, thus increasing the oxygen levels in the blood.

-EPO – side effects?

• The most common side effect of EPO is an increase in blood pressure. This is most likely in patients who already have high blood pressure. Careful monitoring of blood pressure is important for all patients receiving EPO. Occasionally, a combination of EPO and high blood pressure can cause seizures. Treating the high blood pressure can usually prevent this

Some sports: • Cycling: Tour de France • marathon running: Boston Marathon • Skiing: cross-country skiing

BARRY BONDS

• 2003 drug test that was conducted on Barry by Major League Baseball that came up negative for performance-enhancing drugs. But tests later performed on that sample by the UCLA Olympic Testing laboratory showed testosterone; clomid, an anti-estrogen drug used to stimulate natural testosterone levels; and THG, a designer steroid that was provided to athletes by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or Balco.

PENALTIES • SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds, baseball's home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could go to prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs. • The indictment, culminating a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes, charged Bonds with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.