About the Authors

Filomena D’Amato

mena_damato@yahoo.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Barbara Noli

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Laura Angioni

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Efisio Cossu

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Michela Incani

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Irene Messana

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Barbara Manconi

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Paola Solinas

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Raffaella Isola

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Stefano Mariotti

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Gian-Luca Ferri

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Cristina Cocco

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FD. Performed the experiments: FD BN LA CC MI IM SM EC BM PS RI. Analyzed the data: FD SM MI PS CC G-LF. Wrote the paper: FD CC.