About the Authors

Livia Stocco Sanches Valentin

lssv@usp.br

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, LIM 8 –Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Valeria Fontenelle Angelim Pereira

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, LIM 8 –Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ricardo S. Pietrobon

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Andre P. Schmidt

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Hospital de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Jean P. Oses

Affiliation Center of Sciences of the Life and Health, Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Luis V. Portela

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Diogo O. Souza

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci

Current address: Department of Medicine, Faculdade Ingá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Vinicius Fernando da Luz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, LIM 8 –Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Leticia Maria de Araujo de Souza Trintoni

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, LIM 8 –Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Karen C. Nielsen

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

Maria José Carvalho Carmona

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, LIM 8 –Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSSV VFAP MJCC RSP. Performed the experiments: LSSV VFAP APS LVP JRNV VFL. Analyzed the data: LSSV VFAP RSP APS VFL JRNV MJCC KCN LMSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APS DOZ LVP JPO. Wrote the paper: LSSV VFAP.