About the Authors

Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior

Affiliation Postgraduation Program in Functional and Structural Biology/Postgraduation Program Health Science/Department of Morphology, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Tatiana Oliveira Souza

Affiliation Postgraduation Program Health Science/UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Lígia Moreno de Moura

Affiliation Department of Dentistry/UNP, Postgraduation Program Public Health, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Kerginaldo Paulo Torres

Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology/UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Lélia Batista de Souza

Affiliation Postgraduation Program Oral Pathology/UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Maria do Socorro Costa Feitosa Alves

Affiliation Postgraduation Program Health Science/Postgraduation Program Public Health/UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Hugo Oliveira Rocha

Affiliation Postgraduation Program in Biochemistry/UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Aurigena Antunes de Araújo

aurigena@ufrnet.br

Affiliation Postgraduation Program Public Health/Postgraduation Program in Pharmaceutical Science/UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RFA AAA. Performed the experiments: RFA TOS LMM KPT LBS AAA. Analyzed the data: RFA MSCFA HOR AAA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KPT LBS. Wrote the paper: RFA AAA.