About the Authors

Ana Sofia Azevedo

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular e Instituto de Histologia e Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Bartholomäus Grotek

Affiliation Biotechnology Center and Center for Regenerative Therapies, University of Technology Dresden, Dresden, Germany

António Jacinto

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular e Instituto de Histologia e Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Gilbert Weidinger

msaude@fm.ul.pt (LS); gilbert.weidinger@biotec.tu-dresden.de (GW)

Affiliation Biotechnology Center and Center for Regenerative Therapies, University of Technology Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Leonor Saúde

msaude@fm.ul.pt (LS); gilbert.weidinger@biotec.tu-dresden.de (GW)

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular e Instituto de Histologia e Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASA BG AJ GW LS. Performed the experiments: ASA BG GW. Analyzed the data: ASA BG AJ GW LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJ GW LS. Wrote the paper: ASA GW LS.