Melatonin supplementation alleviates cellular damage and physical performance decline induced by an intensive training period in professional soccer players

• Mohamed Amine Farjallah ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aminefarjallah@hotmail.fr

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Research Laboratory, Molecular Bases of Human Pathology, LR19ES13, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia, “Physical Activity, Sport and Health” Research Unit, UR18JS01, National Sport Observatory, Tunis, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4491-5427

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• Kais Ghattassi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kais Ghattassi, Anis Kamoun

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Research Unit, Education, Motricity, Sport and Health, UR15JS01, High Institute of Sport and Physical Education, University of Sfax, Tunisia

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• Anis Kamoun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kais Ghattassi, Anis Kamoun

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Research Laboratory of Evaluation and Management of Musculoskeletal System Pathologies, LR20ES09 University of Sfax, Sfax Tunisia

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• Ahmed Graja,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Research Laboratory, Molecular Bases of Human Pathology, LR19ES13, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

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• Lobna Ben Mahmoud,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

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• Tarak Driss,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Neurosciences, Physiology and Psychology: Physical Activity, Health and Learning (LINP2-APSA), UPL, Paris Nanterre University, UFR STAPS, Nanterre, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6109-7393

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• Kamel Jamoussi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Biochemistry Laboratory, CHU Hedi Chaker, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

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• Zouheir Sahnoun,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

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• Nizar Souissi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation “Physical Activity, Sport and Health” Research Unit, UR18JS01, National Sport Observatory, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Piotr Zmijewski,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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• Omar Hammouda

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Research Laboratory, Molecular Bases of Human Pathology, LR19ES13, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia, Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Neurosciences, Physiology and Psychology: Physical Activity, Health and Learning (LINP2-APSA), UPL, Paris Nanterre University, UFR STAPS, Nanterre, France

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