About the Authors

Nidiane C. Martinelli

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Carolina R. Cohen

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Kátia G. Santos

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Mauro A. Castro

Affiliation Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Andréia Biolo

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Luzia Frick

Affiliation Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Daiane Silvello

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Amanda Lopes

Affiliation Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Stéfanie Schneider

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Michael E. Andrades

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Nadine Clausell

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Ursula Matte

Affiliations Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Luis E. Rohde

rohde.le@gmail.com

Affiliations Experimental and Molecular Cardiovascular Laboratory and the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit from the Cardiology Division at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Post-Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NCM CRC KGS AB NC UM LER. Performed the experiments: LF SS DS MEA MAC AL. Analyzed the data: NCM CRC KGS LF SS DS MEA AB NC UM LER MAC AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NCM CRC KGS LF SS DS MAC MEA AB NC UM LER. Wrote the paper: NCM AB NC UM LER.