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Hypoxia - jej vplyv na organizmus, červené krvinky a možnosti športového tréningu
Hypoxia - its Effect on the Body, Erythrocytes and Sports Training Options

Author(s): Martina Vlčáková, Jaromír Tupý
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sports Studies
Published by: VERBUM - vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku
Keywords: Hypoxia; Red blood cell – erythrocyte; Sport training;

Summary/Abstract: Hypoxia is a lack of oxygen in the arterial blood and tissues, activating a variety of physiological functions and systems that seek to reduce this deficiency and provide the body with enough oxygen. one of the reactions to hypoxia is an increased synthesis of the hormone erythropoietin, which stimulates erythropoiesis in the bone marrow and this increases the absolute number of red blood cells - oxygen carriers. These changes affect the maximum consumption and transport of oxygen needed to develop physical performance. The result is a legal possibility of positive doping in sports activities.

  • Issue Year: XII/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 36-41
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Slovak