Promising potential of articaine-loaded poly(epsilon-caprolactone) nanocapules for intraoral topical anesthesia

• Camila Batista da Silva,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, Health Sciences, University of Mogi das Cruzes–UMC, Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Maria Cristina Volpato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Bruno Vilela Muniz,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, Itapeva Faculty of Social and Agrarian Sciences—FAIT, Itapeva, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Cleiton Pita dos Santos,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Luciano Serpe,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Dentistry, State University of Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil

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• Luiz Eduardo Nunes Ferreira,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, Laboratory of Inflammation and Immunology, Guarulhos University–UNG, Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Nathalie Ferreira Silva de Melo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Engineering, São Paulo State University, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, São Leopoldo Mandic Research Institute, Campinas, SP, Brazil

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• Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Engineering, São Paulo State University, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

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• Francisco Carlos Groppo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Michelle Franz-Montan

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

  * E-mail: mfranz@unicamp.br

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0760-1389

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