About the Authors

Gonzalo Almarza

Current address: Department of Defense and Aerospace, INVAP, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Biomedical Research Institute, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Francisco Sánchez

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Biomedical Research Institute, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Francisco J. Barrantes

rtfjb1@yahoo.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Biomedical Research Institute, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJB. Performed the experiments: FJB. Analyzed the data: GA FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FJB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: FJB GA FS. Carried out SPT simulations presented in the Supplementary Material: GA. Undertook the meta-analysis presented in the Supplementary Material: FS.