Nucci, Mariana P.
Lukasova, Katerina
Sato, João R.
Amaro, Edson Jr
Article History
First Online: 12 October 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants provided informed written consent, and the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (in 29/03/2007 – no. 0004/07).
: Mariana P Nucci, Katerina Lukasova, João R Sato and Edson Amaro declare that they no confict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethnical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964. Informed consent was obtained from all participants for being included in the study.