Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2023-2024
Course director
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Dr. Gábor POZSGAI
associate professor,
Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy -
Number of hours/semester
lectures: 0 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 10 hours
total of: 10 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OAE-TFS-T
- 1 kredit
- General Medicine
- Elective modul
- spring
OAA-EL2-T completed
Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 30
Available as Campus course for 15 fő számára. Campus-karok: ETK GYTK TTK
Topic
The course covers performance-enhancing drugs widely used by athletes. After reviewing history and legal control, main groups of performance-enhancing agents are discussed. Physiological and pharmacological characteristics of individual drugs are delineated. Practical aspects of performance-enhancing compounds for clinicians are illustrated through examples.
Lectures
Practices
Seminars
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Anabolic steroids
- 3. Beta 2 receptor agonists
- 4. Creatine
- 5. Dietary supplements
- 6. Gene doping and metaboic modulators I
- 7. Gene doping and metaboic modulators II
- 8. Enhancement of oxygen transport
- 9. Diuretics and other masking agents
- 10. Prohibited methods
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
Notes
Recommended literature
Michael S. Bahrke, Charles E. Yesalis: Performance Enhancing Substances in Sport and Exercise, 1st edition, Human Kinetics, 2002
David R. Mottram: Drugs in Sport, 5th edition, Routledge, 2010
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
Maximum of 25 % absence allowed
Mid-term exams
There is a test exam at the end of the course.
Making up for missed classes
Not possible.
Exam topics/questions
1. Introduction
2. Anabolic steroids
3. Beta 2 receptor agonists
4. Creatine
5. Dietary supplements
6. Gene doping and metaboic modulators I
7. Gene doping and metaboic modulators II
8. Enhancement of oxygen transport
9. Diuretics and other masking agents
10. Prohibited methods
Examiners
Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars
- Dr. Pozsgai Gábor