About the Authors

Roberto Testa

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberto Testa, Valerie Vanhooren

r.testa@inrca.it

Affiliation Experimental models in Clinical Pathology, Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA), Ancona, 60127, Italy

Valerie Vanhooren

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberto Testa, Valerie Vanhooren

Affiliations VIB Inflammation Research Center, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium

Anna Rita Bonfigli

Affiliation Scientific Direction, Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA), Ancona, 60124, Italy

Massimo Boemi

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases and Diabetology Unit, Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA), 60127, Ancona, Italy

Fabiola Olivieri

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, 60020, Italy, Center of Clinical Pathology and Innovative Therapy, Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA), Ancona, 60127, Italy

Antonio Ceriello

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, 08036, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, 08017, Spain

Stefano Genovese

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Gruppo Multimedica Sesto San Giovanni (MI), 20099, Italy

Liana Spazzafumo

Affiliation Center of Biostatistic, Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA), Ancona, 60124, Italy

Vincenzo Borelli

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, 40126, Italy

Maria Giulia Bacalini

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, 40126, Italy

Stefano Salvioli

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, 40126, Italy

Paolo Garagnani

Affiliations Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, 40126, Italy, Center for Applied Biomedical Research, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, 40138, Italy, Interdepartmental Centre "L. Galvani" CIG, University of Bologna, Piazza di Porta S. Donato 1, Bologna, 40126, Italy

Sylviane Dewaele

Affiliations VIB Inflammation Research Center, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium

Claude Libert

Affiliations VIB Inflammation Research Center, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium

Claudio Franceschi

Affiliations Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, 40126, Italy, Center for Applied Biomedical Research, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, 40138, Italy, Interdepartmental Centre "L. Galvani" CIG, University of Bologna, Piazza di Porta S. Donato 1, Bologna, 40126, Italy, IRCCS, Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Bologna, 40124, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RT ARB MB AC CF SG. Performed the experiments: VV SG VB MGB SS PG SD CL. Analyzed the data: LS FO CF RT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VV SD CL RT ARB MB. Wrote the paper: RT VV ARB FO PG CF.