About the Authors
- Marcus H. Jones
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Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus H. Jones, Andréa L. Corso
* E-mail: mhjones@pucrs.br
Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Research, and School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Andréa L. Corso
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Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus H. Jones, Andréa L. Corso
Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Research, and School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Robert S. Tepper
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
- Maria I. A. Edelweiss
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine and Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Luciana Friedrich
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Affiliation Neonatology Section, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Paulo M. C. Pitrez
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Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Research, and School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Renato T. Stein
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Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Research, and School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MHJ PMCP RTS RST ALC. Performed the experiments: MHJ ALC LF MIE. Analyzed the data: MHJ RTS ALC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHJ RTS. Wrote the paper: MHJ RTS RST.