About the Authors

Marcus H. Jones

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus H. Jones, Andréa L. Corso

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

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

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine and Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Luciana Friedrich

Affiliation Neonatology Section, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil

Paulo M. C. Pitrez

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Research, and School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Renato T. Stein

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.