About the Authors

Jessica Karlsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Karlsson, Carmine M. Morgillo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Pharmacology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Carmine M. Morgillo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Karlsson, Carmine M. Morgillo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Alessandro Deplano

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Unit of Pharmaceutical, Pharmacological and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Cagliari, via Ospedale 72, Cagliari, I-09124, Italy

Giovanni Smaldone

Affiliation Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, CNR, Naples, Italy

Emilia Pedone

Affiliation Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, CNR, Naples, Italy

F. Javier Luque

Affiliation Departament de Fisicoquímica and Institut de Biomedicina (IBUB), Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain

Mona Svensson

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Pharmacology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Ettore Novellino

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Cenzo Congiu

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Unit of Pharmaceutical, Pharmacological and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Cagliari, via Ospedale 72, Cagliari, I-09124, Italy

Valentina Onnis

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Unit of Pharmaceutical, Pharmacological and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Cagliari, via Ospedale 72, Cagliari, I-09124, Italy

Bruno Catalanotti

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Christopher J. Fowler

cf@pharm.umu.se

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Pharmacology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK BC EP EN VO CJF. Performed the experiments: JK CMM AD GS EP FJL MS CC VO BC. Analyzed the data: JK CMM AD GS EP FJL MS CC VO BC CJF. Wrote the paper: JK FJL BC VO CJF.