About the Authors

Massimiliano Migliori

Contributed equally to this work with: Massimiliano Migliori, Vincenzo Cantaluppi

m.migliori@usl12.toscana.it

Affiliation Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Versilia Hospital, Lido di Camaiore, Italy

Vincenzo Cantaluppi

Contributed equally to this work with: Massimiliano Migliori, Vincenzo Cantaluppi

Affiliation Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Claudio Mannari

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and New Technology in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Alberto A. E. Bertelli

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Davide Medica

Affiliation Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Alessandro Domenico Quercia

Affiliation Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Victor Navarro

Affiliation Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Alessia Scatena

Affiliation Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Versilia Hospital, Lido di Camaiore, Italy

Luca Giovannini

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and New Technology in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Luigi Biancone

Affiliation Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Vincenzo Panichi

Affiliation Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Versilia Hospital, Lido di Camaiore, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM VC. Performed the experiments: DM ADQ AS VN. Analyzed the data: MM VC CM AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAEB CM. Wrote the paper: MM VC CM. Analysis and interpretation of data: AAEB LG LB VP.