Review Article
Research on Detection of Sterol Doping in Sports by Electrochemical Sensors: A Review
Table 1
Advantages and disadvantages of several analytical techniques in doping-control.
| Instruments | Doping types | Advantages | Disadvantages |
| UV-vis spectroscopy | With ultraviolet absorption | Cheap instrument | Low sensitivity | GC-MS | Good thermal stability | Qualitative and quantitative analysis | Most of them need to be derived | LC-MS | Good thermal stability | Used for identification of unknown drugs | Structural identification difficulty | Chemiluminescence immunoassay | Sterols and hormones | Sensitivity and specificity | Specific substance detection | Electrochemical method | Electroactive | Sensitivity | Specific substance detection | Gene stimulant transfer vector | Gene doping | Specificity | High cost |
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