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  • 1Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences of the Universidade Estadual do Ceará - PPGCF/UECE, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil; Laboratory of Physiopharmacology of Excitable Cells of the Universidade Regional do Cariri - LFCE/URCA, Crato, Ceará, Brazil.

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