The substance was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:linked to cycling in 2012 when aꦿ Colombian doctor, Alberto Beltrán Niño, who worked with teams includin🌊g the former Xacobeo-Galicia squad, was arrested in Madrid with AICAR and another experimental drug TB-500 in his possession.
AICAR is used to decrease body fat and was intended to rever🦩se diseases such as type ꦉ2 diabetes, but a side-effect of the drug was increase endurance, at least in laboratory animals.
The UCI has already sent samples from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France and other races to Cologne to be tested for the substance, a UCI spokesman confirmed to Cyclingnews.
Mario Thevis, a professor from the Cologne Centerꦗ for Preventive Doping Research, developed the analysis, which uses carbon isotope ratios to distinguish synthetic AICAR from substances found naturally in the body, much like the WADA-approved test for synthetic testosterone.
"In nature there are two versions of the carbon. There is carbon 12 with a mass of 12, and carbon with a mass of 13, and the ratio reflects exactly that of the carbon we ingest in food," Thevis explained. "If you produce a synthetic product, this ratio, the signature of the carbon, is different and that can be distinguished with🐓 the help of modern analytical methods."
Because there is already an existing test approved by WADA for testosterone, it stands to reason that the AIC🔯AR version of the test would be eas🌠ily implemented in WADA-approved laboratories.
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