About the Authors

Roberta M. Cravo

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberta M. Cravo, Renata Frazao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Renata Frazao

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberta M. Cravo, Renata Frazao

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Mario Perello

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Multidisciplinary Institute of Cell Biology (CONICET/ CICPBA), La Plata, Argentina

Sherri Osborne-Lawrence

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Kevin W. Williams

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jeffery M. Zigman

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Claudia Vianna

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Carol F. Elias

cfelias@umich.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KWW JMZ CV CFE. Performed the experiments: RMC RF MP SOL. Analyzed the data: RMC RF KWW CFE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KWW JMZ CV. Wrote the paper: RMC RF CFE.