About the Authors

Ingrid Almeida Miranda

Affiliation Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Faculty of Engineering, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alvaro Camilo Dias Faria

Affiliation Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Faculty of Engineering, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Agnaldo José Lopes

Affiliation Laboratory of Pulmonary Function Testing – Discipline of Pneumology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

José Manoel Jansen

Affiliation Laboratory of Pulmonary Function Testing – Discipline of Pneumology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pedro Lopes de Melo

plopeslib@gmail.com

Affiliations Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Faculty of Engineering, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Research in Vascular Biology - Biomedical Center, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJL JMJ PLM. Performed the experiments: IAM ACDF. Analyzed the data: IAM ACDF AJL JMJ PLM. Interpreted the data: IAM ACDF AJL JMJ PLM. Wrote the article or critical review: IAM ACDF AJL JMJ PLM. Concieved and organized the illustrations: IAM ACDF PLM. Final approval of the version for publication: IAM ACDF AJL JMJ PLM.