About the Authors

Francesco Girolamo

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Girolamo, Alice Dallatomasina

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, University of Bari School of Medicine, Bari, Italy

Alice Dallatomasina

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Girolamo, Alice Dallatomasina

Affiliation COMT – Centre for Molecular and Translational Oncology and Department of Biosciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Marco Rizzi

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, University of Bari School of Medicine, Bari, Italy

Mariella Errede

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, University of Bari School of Medicine, Bari, Italy

Thomas Wälchli

Affiliations Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Maria Teresa Mucignat

Affiliation S.O.C. for Experimental Oncology 2, The National Cancer Institute Aviano, CRO-IRCCS, Aviano, Italy

Karl Frei

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Luisa Roncali

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, University of Bari School of Medicine, Bari, Italy

Roberto Perris

Affiliations COMT – Centre for Molecular and Translational Oncology and Department of Biosciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, S.O.C. for Experimental Oncology 2, The National Cancer Institute Aviano, CRO-IRCCS, Aviano, Italy

Daniela Virgintino

daniela.virgintino@uniba.it

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, University of Bari School of Medicine, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG RP DV. Performed the experiments: MR AD ME TW MTM. Analyzed the data: AD KF LR RP. Wrote the manuscript: FG RP DV. Contributed to microscopy analyses: FG MR ME DV.