About the Authors

Remus Osan

Contributed equally to this work with: Remus Osan, Adriano B. L. Tort

Affiliations Center for Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Biodynamics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adriano B. L. Tort

Contributed equally to this work with: Remus Osan, Adriano B. L. Tort

Affiliations Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Olavo B. Amaral

olavo@bioqmed.ufrj.br

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OBA. Performed the experiments: RO ABLT. Analyzed the data: RO ABLT OBA. Wrote the paper: RO ABLT OBA.