About the Authors

Cristina Gambardella

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biotecnologie, University of Ferrara and Istituto Nazionale di Neuroscienze, Ferrara, Italy

Angela Pignatelli

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biotecnologie, University of Ferrara and Istituto Nazionale di Neuroscienze, Ferrara, Italy

Ottorino Belluzzi

mk5@unife.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biotecnologie, University of Ferrara and Istituto Nazionale di Neuroscienze, Ferrara, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OB. Performed the experiments: CG AP. Analyzed the data: OB CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OB. Wrote the paper: OB.