Braga, Tarcio Teodoro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2989-1076
Davanso, Mariana Rodrigues
Mendes, Davi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9524-4424
de Souza, Tiago Antonio
de Brito, Anderson Fernandes
Cruz, Mario Costa
Hiyane, Meire Ioshie
de Lima, Dhemerson Souza
Nunes, Vinicius
de Fátima Giarola, Juliana
Souto, Denio Emanuel Pires
Próchnicki, Tomasz
Lauterbach, Mario
Biscaia, Stellee Marcela Petris
de Freitas, Rilton Alves
Curi, Rui
Pontillo, Alessandra
Latz, Eicke http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-5666
Camara, Niels Olsen Saraiva
Article History
Received: 17 November 2020
Revised: 11 January 2021
Accepted: 15 January 2021
First Online: 5 February 2021
Ethics statement
: All procedures with mice were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations and approved by the local ethics committees at the University of São Paulo (Document 45/2009). All procedures with rhesus macaques were approved by the Ethics Committee on Animal Use of the Butantan Institute (CEUAIB) (number 9376040717). Leucocyte concentrates were obtained after plasmapheresis at the Blood Bank Service of the “Hospital das Clinicas” in Sao Paulo (SP, Brazil), and they were used for peripheral blood monocyte isolation. All volunteers signed informed consent in compliance with the respective Institutional Ethics Committee.
: This study was supported by the São Paulo State Funding Agency (FAPESP) (grants numbers: 2014/06992-8 and 2017/05264-7), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES) Financial Code 001.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.