About the Authors

Federico Tagliati

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Tagliati, Teresa Gagliano

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Teresa Gagliano

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Tagliati, Teresa Gagliano

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Erica Gentilin

Affiliations Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Laboratorio in rete del Tecnopolo “Tecnologie delle terapie avanzate” (LTTA) of the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Mariella Minoia

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Daniela Molè

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Ettore C. delgi Uberti

Affiliations Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Laboratorio in rete del Tecnopolo “Tecnologie delle terapie avanzate” (LTTA) of the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Maria Chiara Zatelli

ztlmch@unife.it

Affiliations Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Laboratorio in rete del Tecnopolo “Tecnologie delle terapie avanzate” (LTTA) of the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interest exists.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FT TG. Performed the experiments: TG EG MM DM. Analyzed the data: FT TG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ECDU MZ. Wrote the manuscript: FT MZ TG.