About the Authors

Irlan de Almeida Freires

Affiliation Pharmacology, Anesthesiology and Therapeutics, Department of Physiological Sciences, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Ramiro Mendonça Murata

ramiro.murata@usc.edu (RMM) (RM); rosalen@fop.unicamp.br (PLR) (PR)

Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences, and Dental Hygiene and the Division of Biomedical Sciences, Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vivian Fernandes Furletti

Affiliation Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Adilson Sartoratto

Affiliation Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Severino Matias de Alencar

Affiliation Department of Agri-food Industry, Food and Nutrition, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Glyn Mara Figueira

Affiliation Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Janaina Aparecida de Oliveira Rodrigues

Affiliation Postgraduate Program of Inter-units in Bioengineering, School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

Marta Cristina Teixeira Duarte

Affiliation Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Pedro Luiz Rosalen

ramiro.murata@usc.edu (RMM) (RM); rosalen@fop.unicamp.br (PLR) (PR)

Affiliation Pharmacology, Anesthesiology and Therapeutics, Department of Physiological Sciences, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IAF MCTD PLR. Performed the experiments: IAF VFF AS SMA RMM JAOR. Analyzed the data: IAF GMF RMM PLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMM GMF MCTD PLR. Wrote the paper: IAF PLR.