Nong National Malefo

Mr. Nong National Malefo


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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21 April 2025 in Applied Sciences
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NMNong National Malefo
Nong National Malefo
Clarissa Marcelle NaidooClarissa Marcelle Naidoo
Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo
MMMukhethwa Michael Mphephu
Mukhethwa Michael Mphephu
MMMmei Cheryl Motshudi
Mmei Cheryl Motshudi
NMNqobile Monate Mkolo
Nqobile Monate Mkolo
Exercise is one of the main challenges to the body’s homeostasis since it needs an immediate, substantial rise in ATP re-synthesis, which leads to the prevention of response capacity and performance of players. Therefore, it is vital to monitor sweat metabolites in soccer players during vigorous exercise to comprehend their functional variations. This flagged the requirement metabonomic approaches for the determination of the distinct metabolic pathways and signature metabolites that are involved in soccer players pre- and post-exercise. In this study, metabolomics and chemometrics approaches were integrated to accelerate and unravel signature-altered metabolites involved pre- and post-exercise. Metabolites profiling revealed a total of 57 signatures and the identified signature altered metabolites belonging to carboxylic acids, ketone, alcohols, aldehydes, aromatics, alkenes, hexoses, hydroxy fatty acids, tetracyclic N-heterocycles, aldopentose, benzenes, alkanes, phenols, and heterocyclic. Niacin is the most downregulated and abundant pre-induced exercise, which can employ its effects through energy metabolism as a precursor for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP). Significant alterations were also specifically observed in the Alanine, aspartate and glutamate, Valine, leucine and isoleucine, Pantothenate and CoA biosynthesis, and Galactose metabolisms following exercise.