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ReviewDrug testing and analysis2026

Annual Banned-Substance Review 18th Edition-Analytical Approaches in Human Sports Drug Testing 2024/2025.

Mario Thevis, Tiia Kuuranne, Hans Geyer

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Review in Drug testing and analysis, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Mario ThevisInstitute of Biochemistry, Center for Preventive Doping Research, German Sport University Cologne, am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, Cologne/Bonn, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1535-6451
Tiia KuuranneSwiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses, University Center of Legal Medicine, Genève and Lausanne, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1638-6182
Hans GeyerInstitute of Biochemistry, Center for Preventive Doping Research, German Sport University Cologne, am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, Cologne/Bonn, Germany.

Funding

Federal Chancellery of the Federal Republic of GermanyManfred Donike Institut für Dopinganalytik
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alongside the considerable advances and accomplishments in drug research and development, the breadth of anti-doping research topics has also continued to grow. This is particularly relevant not only to provide comprehensive information on new drug entities, drug metabolism and elimination, and/or the impact of administration and exposure routes on analytical test results but also to ensure the timely implementation of analytical methods that ensure the availability of relevant anti-doping testing procedures and corresponding analytical data for routine doping control applications. The 18th edition of the annual banned-substance review on analytical approaches in human sports drug testing is dedicated to literature published between October 2024 and September 2025, and information published within these 12 months on established doping agents as well as new (potentially and evidently) relevant substances is reviewed and discussed, especially in the context of the World Anti-Doping Agency's 2025 Prohibited List. Topics of particular interest have been investigations into the metabolic fate and detection of anabolic agents, both anabolic-androgenic steroids and other anabolic substances such as selective androgen receptor modulators and protein-based therapeutics negatively regulating the activin receptor signaling pathway, and detection strategies for numerous new drug candidates have been discussed and presented. Further, the trend toward expanding testing options with regard to gene doping practices including oligonucleotide-based compounds (e.g., small interfering RNA, antisense oligonucleotides, etc.), transgenes, and gene editing practices continued also in 2024/2025, underlining the relevance for current and future sports drug testing programs.

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Anabolic AgentsDoping in SportsPerformance-Enhancing SubstancesSubstance Abuse DetectionAnabolic Androgenic SteroidsHumansAnabolic AgentsAnabolic Androgenic SteroidsPerformance-Enhancing Substancesdopingexposuregene dopingLY305sport

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