Elburki, Muna S.
Rossa, Carlos Jr
Guimarães-Stabili, Morgana R.
Lee, Hsi-Ming
Curylofo-Zotti, Fabiana A.
Johnson, Francis
Golub, Lorne M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), through NYSTAR’s Center of Advanced Technology (Grant no. A43273)
Research Foundation, Stony Brook University (Grant no. A37298)
Sao Paulo State Research Foundation (Grant nos. 2009/54080-0, 2010/20091-2, 2010/19660-2, and 2012/15826-9)
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Libya. (Grant no. 2007/700)
Article History
First Online: 22 May 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The study protocol was previously approved by the Institution’s Committees (Araraquara-UNESP, SP, Brazil, and Stony Brook University, NY, USA) for Experimental Animal Use.
: Lorne M. Golub is listed as an inventor on several related patents, and these have been fully assigned to his institution, Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY). Francis Johnson is also listed as an inventor on several related patents which have been fully assigned to Stony Brook University and to Chem-Master Int., Inc., on a shared basis. He declares that he has no conflict of interests, financial or otherwise, with regard to the publication of this paper. All other authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.