About the Authors
- Maurizio A. Leone
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* E-mail: maurizio.leone@maggioreosp.novara.it
Affiliations MS Centre, Head and Neck Department, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases, Novara, Italy
- Olga Raymkulova
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Affiliation MS Centre, Head and Neck Department, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy
- Paola Naldi
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Affiliation MS Centre, Head and Neck Department, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy
- Piergiorgio Lochner
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hospital Tappeiner, Merano, Italy
- Laura Bolamperti
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Affiliation SCDU Neurologia, Head and Neck Department, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy
- Lorenzo Coppo
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Affiliation SCDU Neurologia, Head and Neck Department, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy
- Alessandro Stecco
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Affiliation Istituto di Radiologia Diagnostica e Interventistica, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy
- William Liboni
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Affiliation SNC Neurology, Gradenigo Hospital, Torino, Italy; and Fondazione “Un passo insieme,” Valdellatorre, Italy
Competing Interests
Maurizio A. Leone has received funds for travel, and research grants from Merck-Serono, Biogen-Idec, and Sanofi Aventis, and has been invited to meeting by ESAOTE. He is Associate Editor of the European Journal of Neurology. William Liboni was supported by ESAOTE for his course at the Zamboni laboratory. Paola Naldi has received funds for travel from Merck-Serono. Alessandro Stecco, Laura Bolamperti, Lorenzo Coppo, Piergiorgio Lochner, and Olga Raymkulova have nothing to disclose. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MAL AS. Performed the experiments: PL LB LC WL OR. Analyzed the data: MAL PN. Wrote the paper: MAL WB AS.