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Biology of Sport
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Acute effects of beetroot juice vs. creatine supplementation on maximal strength, autonomic regulation, and muscle oxygenation during incremental resistance exercise

Atef Salem
1, 2
,
Achraf Ammar
1, 2, 3
,
Mohamed Kerkeni
2, 4
,
Mohamed Ali Boujelbane
1, 2
,
Ayse Merve Uyar
1
,
Leonard Moritz Köbel
1
,
Saranya Selvaraj
5
,
Reza Zare
6
,
Katie M. Heinrich
7, 8
,
Haitham Jahrami
9, 10
,
Slim Tounsi
11
,
Giuseppe Grosso
12
,
Piotr Zmijewski
13
,
Wolfgang I. Schöllhorn
1
,
Khaled Trabelsi
2, 4, 14
,
Hamdi Chtourou
2, 15

  1. Department of Training and Movement Science, Institute of Sport Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55122 Mainz, Germany
  2. High Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax 3000, Tunisia
  3. Research Laboratory, Molecular Bases of Human Pathology, LR19ES13, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax 3000, Tunisia
  4. Research Laboratory: Education, Motricity, Sport and Health, EM2S, LR19JS01, High Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax 3000, Tunisia
  5. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
  6. SRH Campus Hamburg, SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
  7. Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
  8. Department of Research and Evaluation, The Phoenix, Denver, CO 80205, USA
  9. Government Hospitals, Manama, Bahrain
  10. Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain
  11. Laboratory of Biopesticides (LBPES), Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
  12. Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
  13. Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, 00-809 Warsaw, Poland
  14. Department of Movement Sciences and Sports Training, School of Sport Science, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
  15. Research Unit, Physical Activity, Sport, and Health, UR18JS01, National Observatory of Sport, Tunis 1003, Tunisia
Biol Sport. 2025;42(4):241–259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2025.151658
Online publish date: 2025/06/06
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