How to Use erythropoietin in a Sentence

erythropoietin

noun

• Healthy kidneys make a hormone called erythropoietin (EPO), which sends a signal to your body's bone marrow to make more red blood cells.
  — Hallie Levine, Health.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• When the body detects that less oxygen is present, the kidneys release a hormone called erythropoietin, or EPO, which tells the body to make more red blood cells to carry more oxygen around.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2019
• He is accused of providing human growth hormones and the blood-building drug erythropoietin to two track-and-field athletes who resided in Florida in 2021.
  — James Fanelli, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• The hormone that triggers erythropoiesis is called erythropoietin, or EPO.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
• Hypoxia was known to trigger a rise in the hormone erythropoietin (EPO), which is involved in producing red blood cells, but the prizewinning scientists revealed the mechanism for how this process works.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2019
• For decades, scientists were aware that in low-oxygen conditions, the kidneys secrete a hormone called EPO (erythropoietin), which boosts the production of red blood cells in an effort to bring oxygen levels back to normal.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
• As for drugs, notorious test-tube elixirs like human growth hormone and erythropoietin are coming under more scrutiny than ever.
  — Andrew Tilin, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2000
• Other researchers had identified the hormone erythropoietin (the EPO made famous by many athletic doping scandals), which stimulates the production of red blood cells.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2019
• Much of that regulation, previous research established, is controlled by a hormone called erythropoietin (EPO), which boosts the concentration of oxygen-carrying red blood cells.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
• There is an additional factor that favored cheating with erythropoietin.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2022
• People with chronic kidney disease, for example, can't make erythropoietin, and therefore have hypoxic cells, Semenza said.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2019
• The fundamental physiology work has led a better understanding of how much than 300 hundred genes in the body are regulated, including the one for the hormone erythropoietin (EPO), which regulates production of blood cells.
  — Science | AAAS, 7 Oct. 2019
• Primary substances, including anabolic steroids and erythropoietin (EPO) that can increase red blood cells and boost aerobic capacity, would be prohibited at all times.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 11 Nov. 2021
• In 1993, an influential publication reported that the erythropoietin receptor was found on mouse neurons.
  — Edward Chen, STAT, 18 July 2022
• Based on previous positive results, some physicians were already prescribing erythropoietin to newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
  — Edward Chen, STAT, 18 July 2022

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024