About the Authors

Sheena E. M. Lewis

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheena E. M. Lewis, Cinzia Rapino

Affiliation School of Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Institute of Clinical Science, Belfast, United Kingdom

Cinzia Rapino

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheena E. M. Lewis, Cinzia Rapino

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Monia Di Tommaso

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Mariangela Pucci

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Natalia Battista

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Rita Paro

Affiliation School of Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Institute of Clinical Science, Belfast, United Kingdom

Luke Simon

Affiliation School of Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Institute of Clinical Science, Belfast, United Kingdom

Deborah Lutton

Affiliation Regional Fertility Centre, Royal Jubilee Maternity Services, Belfast, United Kingdom

Mauro Maccarrone

mmaccarrone@unite.it

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy, European Center for Brain Research (CERC)/IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM SEML. Performed the experiments: CR MDT MP NB RP LS DL. Analyzed the data: CR NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM. Wrote the paper: SEML CR MM.