About the Authors

Ernestina Marianna De Francesco

Contributed equally to this work with: Ernestina Marianna De Francesco, Tommaso Angelone

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

Tommaso Angelone

Contributed equally to this work with: Ernestina Marianna De Francesco, Tommaso Angelone

Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

Teresa Pasqua

Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

Marco Pupo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

Maria Carmela Cerra

cerramc@unical.it (MCC); marcellomaggiolini@yahoo.it (MM)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

Marcello Maggiolini

cerramc@unical.it (MCC); marcellomaggiolini@yahoo.it (MM)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMDF TA MM CMC. Performed the experiments: EMDF TA MP TP. Analyzed the data: EMDF TA MP TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM MCC. Wrote the paper: EMDF TA MM MCC.