About the Authors

Abigail De Avila

Contributed equally to this work with: Abigail De Avila, Mayra Diaz

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliations Regenerative Therapies (↑), Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Panama City, Panama, Regenerative Therapies (↓), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Panamá (UP), Panama City, Panama, Doctorate Program in Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidad Tecnológica de Panama (UTP), Panama City, Panama

Mayra Diaz

Contributed equally to this work with: Abigail De Avila, Mayra Diaz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Regenerative Therapies (↑), Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Panama City, Panama

Bruno A. Cisterna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Solangel Castillo

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Regenerative Therapies (↑), Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Panama City, Panama, Regenerative Therapies (↓), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Panamá (UP), Panama City, Panama

Juan Pablo Lezana

Roles Validation, Resources

Affiliation SAVAL Laboratory S.A, Santiago, Chile

Jay Molino

Roles Resources, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Molecular Observation and Research in Nanodynamics, Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Panama City, Panama

Luis Luis

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Regenerative Therapies (↑), Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Panama City, Panama, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Latina de Panama (ULATINA), Panama City, Panama

Miryam Venegas-Anaya

Roles Resources, Supervision

miryam.venegas@utp.ac.pa (MV-A); diego.reginensi@udelas.ac.pa (DR)

Affiliations Doctorate Program in Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidad Tecnológica de Panama (UTP), Panama City, Panama, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama, Centro de Investigaciones Hidraulicas e Hidrotecnicas (CIHH) of Universidad Tecnologica de Panama, Panama City, Panama

Diego Reginensi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

miryam.venegas@utp.ac.pa (MV-A); diego.reginensi@udelas.ac.pa (DR)

Affiliations Regenerative Therapies (↑), Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Panama City, Panama, Regenerative Therapies (↓), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Panamá (UP), Panama City, Panama, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Latina de Panama (ULATINA), Panama City, Panama, Center for Biodiversity and Drug Discovery, INDICASAT-AIP, City of Knowledge, Panama City, Panama

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.