Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the students and postdoctoral fellows who carried out studies mentioned in this editorial, and to their collaborators at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade do Extremo sul Catarinese. Thoughtful and critical comments from Don Granger regarding this manuscript are appreciated.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
Work mentioned was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health (R03 NS04512 and R37 [R01] HL44525-22 to Guy A Zimmerman). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.