About the Authors

Carla Real

Affiliations Angiogenesis Laboratory, CIPM/Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Centro de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Leonor Remédio

Affiliations Angiogenesis Laboratory, CIPM/Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Francisco Caiado

Affiliations Angiogenesis Laboratory, CIPM/Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Cátia Igreja

Affiliations Angiogenesis Laboratory, CIPM/Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Cristina Borges

Affiliation CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Alexandre Trindade

Affiliation CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Perpétua Pinto-do-Ó

Affiliation Divisão de Biomateriais, INEB–Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Hideo Yagita

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Antonio Duarte

Affiliation CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Sérgio Dias

sergidias@ipolisboa.min-saude.pt

Affiliations Angiogenesis Laboratory, CIPM/Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, CEDOC, Faculdade de Ciencias Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD CR. Performed the experiments: CR LR FC CI CB AT. Analyzed the data: SD CR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PPdoÓ HY AD. Wrote the paper: SD CR.