Abstract
The present project aims to give continuity to the research field funded by FAPESP (2012/23212-0 and 2012/22165-9), which was the subject of the dissertation of the present candidate for PhD scholarship, whose results have been published recently in one paper accepted (MARTINS et al., 2015a) and one manuscript submitted (MARTINS et al., 2015b). Previous studies indicated that blood acidif…