*4.1. Drugs and Reagents*

Compound NTK, all inflammatory agents (carrageenan, dextran, histamine, and arachidonic acid), ELISA kits from eBioscience and compound o-dianisidine (used for myeloperoxidase assay) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (New York, NY, USA); the kits for albumin and total proteins quantification were supplied by Labtest (Lagoa Santa, Brazil), ketamine was purchased by the VETNIL (São Paulo, Brazil), and xylazine was purchased by CEVA (São Paulo, Brazil).
