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Intermittent hypoxic training: doping or what?

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  1. Sezione di Chimica Clinica, Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Università di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Piazzale Scuro, 10, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Giuseppe Lippi

  2. Servizio di Immunoematologia e Trasfusione, Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy

    Massimo Franchini

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Lippi, G., Franchini, M. Intermittent hypoxic training: doping or what?. Eur J Appl Physiol 108, 411–412 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-009-1188-1

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