About the Authors

Marina Podestà

marinapodesta@ospedale-gaslini.ge.it

Affiliation Laboratorio Cellule Staminali Post-Natali e Terapie Cellulari, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy

Matteo Bruschettini

Affiliation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Institute for Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Claudia Cossu

Affiliation Laboratorio Cellule Staminali Post-Natali e Terapie Cellulari, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy

Federica Sabatini

Affiliation Laboratorio Cellule Staminali Post-Natali e Terapie Cellulari, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy

Monica Dagnino

Affiliation Laboratorio Cellule Staminali Post-Natali e Terapie Cellulari, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy

Olga Romantsik

Affiliation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Institute for Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Grazia Maria Spaggiari

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy

Luca Antonio Ramenghi

Affiliation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy

Francesco Frassoni

Affiliation Laboratorio Cellule Staminali Post-Natali e Terapie Cellulari, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP FS MD. Performed the experiments: CC MD FS GMS. Analyzed the data: MP FF FS MB LAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF OR MB GMS LAR CC. Wrote the paper: MP FF FS.