About the Authors

Barbara Andria

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Adele Bracco

lotterbe@bidmc.harvard.edu (LEO); adele.bracco@ospedalecardarelli.it (AB)

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Chiara Attanasio

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Sigismondo Castaldo

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Maria Grazia Cerrito

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Milan, Italy

Santolo Cozzolino

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Daniele Di Napoli

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Roberto Giovannoni

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Milan, Italy

Antonio Mancini

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Antonino Musumeci

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Ernesto Mezza

Affiliation Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences,“Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Mario Nasti

Affiliation Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences,“Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Vincenzo Scuderi

Affiliations Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy, Liver Transplantation Unit, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Stefania Staibano

Affiliation Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences,“Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Marialuisa Lavitrano

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Milan, Italy

Leo E. Otterbein

lotterbe@bidmc.harvard.edu (LEO); adele.bracco@ospedalecardarelli.it (AB)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fulvio Calise

Affiliations Centre of Biotechnologies, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy, Liver Transplantation Unit, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that non competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC LO. Performed the experiments: BA VS AB A. Mancini A. Musumeci DN S. Castaldo DDN S. Cozzolino CA. Analyzed the data: FC ML BA LO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML SS MN EM MC RG. Wrote the paper: FC ML LO.