About the Authors

Guilherme Roberto Zammar

Affiliation Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil

Jatin Shah

Affiliations Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Research on Research Group, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ana Paula Bonilauri Ferreira

Affiliations Research on Research Group, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Dentistry, Univille University, Joinville, Brazil

Luciana Cofiel

Affiliations Research on Research Group, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Kenneth W. Lyles

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ricardo Pietrobon

rpietro@duke.edu

Affiliations Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Research on Research Group, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GRZ JS APBF LC KL RP. Performed the experiments: GRZ JS APBF LC KL RP. Analyzed the data: GRZ JS KL RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRZ JS APBF LC KL RP. Wrote the paper: GRZ JS APBF LC KL RP.