About the Authors

Giampiero Porcu

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampiero Porcu, Eliseo Serone

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy, Department of Translational Pharmacology, Fondazione Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy

Eliseo Serone

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampiero Porcu, Eliseo Serone

Affiliations Department of Translational Pharmacology, Fondazione Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy, Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

Velia De Nardis

Affiliation Department of Translational Pharmacology, Fondazione Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy

Daniele Di Giandomenico

Affiliation Department of Translational Pharmacology, Fondazione Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy

Giuseppe Lucisano

Affiliations Department of Translational Pharmacology, Fondazione Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy, Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Pescara, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche di Base, Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Marco Scardapane

Affiliations Department of Translational Pharmacology, Fondazione Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy, Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Pescara, Italy

Anna Poma

Affiliation Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

Antonella Ragnini-Wilson

antonella.ragnini@uniroma2.it

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy, Department of Translational Pharmacology, Fondazione Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARW GP. Performed the experiments: GP ES VDN DDG. Analyzed the data: GP ES VDN GL MS ARW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP ARW. Wrote the paper: ARW GP ES VDN. Obtained permission for use of cell line: GP ARW.