Can photobiomodulation therapy be an alternative to pharmacological therapies in decreasing the progression of skeletal muscle impairments of mdx mice?

• Shaiane Silva Tomazoni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Physiotherapy Research Group, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Heliodora Leão Casalechi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Cheila de Sousa Bacelar Ferreira,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Andrey Jorge Serra,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Humberto Dellê,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Medicine, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6072-3671

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• Rodrigo Barbosa de Oliveira Brito,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Medicine, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Brunno Lemes de Melo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Adriane Aver Vanin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Neide Firmo Ribeiro,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Amanda Lima Pereira,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Kadma Karênina Damasceno Soares Monteiro,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1564-7280

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• Rodrigo Labat Marcos,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Biophotonics Applied to Health Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, Brazil

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• Paulo de Tarso Camillo de Carvalho,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Lucio Frigo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Periodontology, Dental Research Division, Universidade de Guarulhos (UnG), Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal-Junior

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

  * E-mail: ernesto.leal.junior@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Physiotherapy Research Group, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Laboratory of Phototherapy and Innovative Technologies in Health (LaPIT), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6393-7616

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