About the Authors

Uhana Seifert Guimarães Suga

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

Raquel Sano Suga Terada

rssterada@uem.br

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

Adriana Lemos Mori Ubaldini

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

Mitsue Fujimaki

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

Renata Corrêa Pascotto

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

Adelia Portero Batilana

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ricardo Pietrobon

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

João Ricardo N. Vissoci

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Faculdade Ingá, Maringá, Brazil

Clarissa G. Rodrigues

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul - Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia (IC-FUC), Porto Alegre, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSST MF RCP RP CGR. Performed the experiments: USGS ALMU RSST. Analyzed the data: USGS RSST MF RCP CGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSST USGS JRNV CGR APB. Wrote the paper: USGS RSST MF RCP CGR.