About the Authors

Renata Leke

renataleke@hotmail.com

Current address: Experimental Hepatology and Gastroenterology Laboratory, Research Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Diogo L. de Oliveira

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Ben Hur M. Mussulini

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Mery S. Pereira

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Vanessa Kazlauckas

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Guilherme Mazzini

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Carolina R. Hartmann

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Themis R. Silveira

Affiliation Experimental Hepatology and Gastroenterology Laboratory, Research Center of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Post-Graduation in Child and Adolescents Health, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Mette Simonsen

Affiliation Positron Emission Tomography Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Lasse K. Bak

Affiliation Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Helle S. Waagepetersen

Affiliation Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Susanne Keiding

Affiliations Positron Emission Tomography Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Medicine V, Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Arne Schousboe

Affiliation Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Luis V. Portela

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL DLdO VK MS SK. Performed the experiments: RL BHMM MSP GM. Analyzed the data: RL DLdO LKB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TRS CRH LKB. Wrote the paper: RL AS DLdO TRS HSW SK LVP.