About the Authors

Lorenzo Maria Donini

Lorenzomaria.donini@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Experimental Medicine Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Rehabilitation Clinical Institute “Villa delle Querce” – Nemi, Rome, Italy

Barbara Neri

Affiliation Experimental Medicine Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Stefania De Chiara

Affiliation Experimental Medicine Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Eleonora Poggiogalle

Affiliation Experimental Medicine Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Maurizio Muscaritoli

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

This study was funded by Nutricia. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Significantly contributed to the work, read and approved the final manuscript: LMD BN SDC EP MM. Reviewed the manuscript: LMD MM. Conceived and designed the experiments: LMD MM. Analyzed the data: LMD MM. Wrote the paper: EP BN SDC.