About the Authors

Aurigena Antunes de Araújo

Contributed equally to this work with: Aurigena Antunes de Araújo, Hugo Varela

aurigena@ufrnet.br

Affiliation Post Graduation Program Public Health/Post Graduation Program in Pharmaceutical Science/Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology,UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Hugo Varela

Contributed equally to this work with: Aurigena Antunes de Araújo, Hugo Varela

Affiliation Post Graduation Program Public Health/Department of Dentistry, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Gerly Anne de Castro Brito

Affiliation Post Graduation Program in Pharmacology/Department of Morphology, UFC, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Caroline Addison Carvalho Xavier de Medeiros

Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology, UFRN, Post Graduation Program in Health and Society, UERN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Lorena de Souza Araújo

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

José Heriberto Oliveira do Nascimento

Affiliation Department of Textile Engineered, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior

Affiliation Post Graduation Program in Functional and Structural Biology/Post Graduation Program Health Science/Department of Morphology, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAA GACB CACXM RFAJ. Performed the experiments: AAA HV LSA JHON. Analyzed the data: AAA RFAJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GACB CACXM JHON. Wrote the paper: AAA RFAJ HV GACB CACXM.