About the Authors

Camilla Bernardini

Contributed equally to this work with: Camilla Bernardini, Federica Censi

camilla.bernardini@rm.unicatt.it

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Federica Censi

Contributed equally to this work with: Camilla Bernardini, Federica Censi

Affiliation Department of Technologies and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Wanda Lattanzi

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Marta Barba

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Calcagnini

Affiliation Department of Technologies and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Giuliani

Affiliation Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Giorgio Tasca

Affiliation Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus Foundation, Milan, Italy

Mario Sabatelli

Affiliation Institute of Neurology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, School of Medicine, Rome, Italy

Enzo Ricci

Affiliation Institute of Neurology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, School of Medicine, Rome, Italy

Fabrizio Michetti

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB ER. Performed the experiments: CB MB. Analyzed the data: CB FC GC AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER MS GT FM. Wrote the paper: CB WL FC. Revised the paper critically for important intellectual content: WL AG FM ER. Final approval of the version to be published: ER.