anabolic steroid


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any of a group of synthetic steroid hormones used to stimulate muscle and bone growth

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TONIGHT'S show goes undercover to expose some of those behind the illegal sale and supply of anabolic steroids in Ireland.
New Delhi [India], Nov 25 ( ANI ): The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Saturday busted an anabolic steroid smuggling racket and seized large stack of drugs along with huge amount of foreign currency.
A 2007 survey of nearly 2,000 anabolic steroid users revealed both motivations for use and methods of drug acquisition.
Indications of prevalence, practice and effects- of anabolic steroid use in Great Britain.
President Obama was expected to sign the bill, which provides new authority to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to place designer anabolic steroids on the Controlled Substance Schedules more rapidly.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that nonmedical anabolic steroid use among American high school seniors is at an all-time high (GAO, 2006).
The Demonization of anabolic steroid I: what these hormones so evil,.
"Anabolic steroid use has huge effects on the cardiovascular system -- increases your chances of strokes or heart attacks,'' said Dr.
" Sangwan has tested positive for Stanozolol ( 16 Beta Hydroxyl and 3 OH, androgenic anabolic steroids), which supposedly went into his body inadvertently through an injection that he took for shoulder pain in Najafgarh," the source told M AIL T ODAY .
TRAINER John Berry believes it would be "very, very sad" if fellow Newmarket handler Gerard Butler were to lose his licence after admitting mistakenly using anabolic steroids on some of his horses.
Some studies have reported a more pronounced gain in muscular strength with the association between anabolic steroid with strength training (BHASIN et al., 2001; SCHROEDER et al., 2003; SCHROEDER et al., 2005), however we observed a lack of significant differences on this parameter, when comparing the groups TC and TH.
Thirty body builder athletes with daily exercise for two hours and at least five times per week for the preceding two years were selected and divided into two groups (15 cases in each group): group one with chronic anabolic steroid abuse for the preceding two years and at least twice weekly or eight times per month of testosterone or nandrolone injection or daily oxymetholone ingestion and group two, which included athletes without history of anabolic androgenic steroid abuse.
Therefore, we studied the effects of the combination of mechanical stimulation and administration of an anabolic steroid on the expression of myogenic transcription factors and muscle growth factor.
BUCKLEY, W.E., YESALIS, C.E., FRIEDL, K.E., 1988, Estimated prevalence of anabolic steroid use among male high school seniors, JAMA,; 260: 3441-3445.