Preparation and characterisation of new immunopurified urinary and plasmatic EPO standards. Acronym: REFEPOS

Project Title: Preparation and characterisation of new immunopurified urinary and plasmatic EPO standards. Acronym: REFEPOS

Researchers: J.A. Pascual, R. de la TORRE, J. SEGURA, (Fundacio IMIM, Barcelona, Spain), M. Lönnberg, J. Carlsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Year accepted: 2009

Summary: The aim of the project is: - developing the methodology for producing a urinary EPO standard by processing urine from patients and healthy volunteers. - producing immunopurified urinary and serum EPO standards, available for doping control purposes. As secondary objectives, the daily variation of their urinary EPO profiles will be studied and, using EPO from patients producing elevated concentrations of the structural characterisation of EPO will be approached.