Turinabol
Also known as: 4-chlorodehydromethyltestosterone, tbol, Oral Turinabol
Status
No approved product. No FDA-approved human labeling, and no human approval elsewhere is listed in this site's sources. Schedule III controlled substance.
What it is
An East German oral androgen, best known now from state doping program records.
What published research measured
Developed in East Germany in the 1960s and administered to athletes, often without their knowledge, in a state program whose long-term follow-up records are among the few sources of long-horizon androgen outcome data that exist. It is a 17-alpha-alkylated compound that does not aromatise. Its metabolites are detectable in urine for an unusually long period, which is why it accounts for a disproportionate share of retrospective doping cases.
Caution
No FDA-approved human labeling, and no human approval elsewhere is listed in this site's sources. Schedule III controlled substance.
Source
Ho EN et al. 2007 — Metabolic studies of turinabol in horses · Froehner M et al. 1999 — Intratesticular leiomyosarcoma in a young man after high dose doping with Oral-Turinabol: a case report · Dürbeck HW et al. 1983 — GC and capillary column GC/MS determination of synthetic anabolic steroids. II. 4-chloro-methandienone (oral turinabo…
Sources
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