Santos, Luciano de S.
Silva, Valdenizia R.
de Castro, Maria V. L.
Dias, Rosane B.
Valverde, Ludmila de F.
Rocha, Clarissa A. G.
Soares, Milena B. P.
Quadros, Claudio A.
dos Santos, Edjane R.
Oliveira, Regina M. M.
Carlos, Rose M.
Nogueira, Paulo C. L.
Bezerra, Daniel P. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6774-2063
Funding for this research was provided by:
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (001, 001, 001, 001, 001, 001, 001, 001, 001)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Article History
Received: 27 March 2023
Revised: 14 November 2023
Accepted: 23 November 2023
First Online: 15 December 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: For human samples, the Research Ethics Committee of São Rafael Hospital (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) (CAAE 30815214.9.3002.0048) or the Research Ethics Committee of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) (CAAE 16220713.2.0000.0040) approved the protocols. All patients/subjects provided signed informed consent prior to using these clinical materials for research purposes. For animal studies, an experimental protocol was approved by a local animal ethics committee of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) (#10/2020).