Bock, Patricia Martins
Krause, Mauricio
Schroeder, Helena Trevisan
Hahn, Gabriela Fernandes
Takahashi, Hilton Kenji
Schöler, Cinthia Maria
Nicoletti, Graziella
Neto, Luiz Domingos Zavarize
Rodrigues, Maria Inês Lavina
Bruxel, Maciel Alencar
Homem de Bittencourt, Paulo Ivo Jr.
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (551097/2007 8, 402626/2012-5 and 402364/2012-0, 402398/2013-2 and 372373/2013-5)
Article History
Received: 11 August 2015
Accepted: 29 October 2015
First Online: 3 November 2015
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest and no competing interests such as consultancies, financial involvement, patent ownership, etc. in relation to the work described herein. CNPq (the funding organism) had no involvement in the propositions presented in this manuscript.
: All the procedures performed in studies involving the animals followed the ethical rules established by Arouca’s Act (Federal Law 11794/2008) and the Guide for Care and Use of Experimental Animals published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH publication no. 85-23, revised in 1996). The procedures were approved by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Ethics Committee on Animal Experimentation (CEUA #21293/2011), according to the guidelines of the Brazilian National Council for the Control of Animal Experimentation (CONCEA).