Anabolic steroids among resistance training practitioners

Ericson Pereira; Samuel Jorge Moyses; Sérgio Aparecido Ignácio; Daniel Komarchewski Mendes; Diego Sgarbi da Silva; Everdan Carneiro; Ana Maria Trindade Grégio Hardy; Edvaldo Antônio Ribeiro Rosa; Patrícia Vida Cassi Bettega; Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0223384

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Anabolic steroids among resistance training practitioners

Ericson Pereira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ericson Pereira, Ana Maria Trindade Grégio Hardy, Patrícia Vida Cassi Bettega, Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

Affiliation Department of Physical Education, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Samuel Jorge Moyses ,

Roles Conceptualization

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Sérgio Aparecido Ignácio ,

Roles Software

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Daniel Komarchewski Mendes ,

Roles Methodology

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Physical Education, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Diego Sgarbi da Silva ,

Roles Methodology

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Everdan Carneiro ,

Roles Project administration

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Ana Maria Trindade Grégio Hardy ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ericson Pereira, Ana Maria Trindade Grégio Hardy, Patrícia Vida Cassi Bettega, Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

Roles Project administration

Current address: The University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
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Edvaldo Antônio Ribeiro Rosa ,

Roles Conceptualization

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Patrícia Vida Cassi Bettega ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ericson Pereira, Ana Maria Trindade Grégio Hardy, Patrícia Vida Cassi Bettega, Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

Affiliation Department of Physical Education, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

Contributed equally to this work with: Ericson Pereira, Ana Maria Trindade Grégio Hardy, Patrícia Vida Cassi Bettega, Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

Roles Supervision

* E-mail: aline.johann@pucpr.br

Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, Prado Velho, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Graduate Program, Life Sciences School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-9363

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Anabolic steroids among resistance training practitioners

Ericson Pereira,
Samuel Jorge Moyses,
Sérgio Aparecido Ignácio,
Daniel Komarchewski Mendes,
Diego Sgarbi da Silva,
Everdan Carneiro,
Ana Maria Trindade Grégio Hardy,
Edvaldo Antônio Ribeiro Rosa,
Patrícia Vida Cassi Bettega,
Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

Published: October 16, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223384

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