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Dried Blood Spot Testing “A game changer” in Anti-doping strategies: A Review

Adil Ali Ansari, Aman Sachdeva

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Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 14(3(Special Issue)):p 617-619, July - September 2021. | DOI: 10.21088/ijfmp.0974.3383.14321.25

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Ansari AA. Dried blood spot testing “a game-changer” in anti-doping strategies: a review. Indian J Forensic Med Pathol. 2021;14(3 Special):617-19.

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Received : July 02, 2021         Accepted : July 20, 2021          Published : September 30, 2021

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background: Dried blood spots (DBS) have been used for years as a supplementary matrix in sports drug testing. Dried Blood Spots are a promising technique for minimally invasive sample collection in a variety of analytical disciplines, such as therapeutic drug monitoring, preclinical drug development, and diagnostic investigation of metabolic abnormalities in newborns. The increasing potential of DBS has been highlighted in the scientific literature, particularly when it comes to drugs prohibited in world sports. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has planned to incorporate DBS as a new and much more efficient way of assessing the athletes for any prohibited ergogenic aid in upcoming Tokyo Olympics 2021. This literature seeks to evaluate the scope of effectiveness of the DBS method in identification of various banned drugs by examining previous data derived from literatures on DBS. Based on the researches analyzed, it is concluded that DBS methods is very much implementable in identification of variety of ergogenic aids along with being much more efficient way of identification. key message: DBS method of blood doping analysis can prove to be a new and time saving process of doping analysis in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics 2021 due to its vast applications & cost effectiveness and considerable safety during COVID-19

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Ansari AA. Dried blood spot testing “a game-changer” in anti-doping strategies: a review. Indian J Forensic Med Pathol. 2021;14(3 Special):617-19.

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July 02, 2021 July 20, 2021 September 30, 2021
DOI: 10.21088/ijfmp.0974.3383.14321.25

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dbs techniquedopingergogenic aidstokyo olympics 2020

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