Funding: We thank to the at Laboratório de Biomedicina Mitocondrial e Teranóstica, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular for the assistance with RNA integrity analysis. We thank the Serviço de Anatomia Patológica, Coimbra University Hospital, especially Ilda Simões, for the support with histological techniques. This work was supported by a grant from GIFT (Grupo de Investigação Fundamental e Translacional)...