About the Authors

Valentina Malafoglia

Affiliations Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, Institute for Research on Pain, ISAL-Foundation, Torre Pedrera (RN), Italy, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

Lorenzo Traversetti

Affiliation Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Floriano Del Grosso

Affiliation Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Massimiliano Scalici

Affiliation Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Filomena Lauro

Affiliation IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

Valeria Russo

Affiliation Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Tiziana Persichini

Affiliation Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Daniela Salvemini

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, United States of America

Vincenzo Mollace

Affiliation IRC-FSH, Department of Health Science, University of ‘Magna Graecia’, Catanzaro, Italy

Massimo Fini

Affiliation IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

William Raffaeli

Affiliation Institute for Research on Pain, ISAL-Foundation, Torre Pedrera (RN), Italy

Carolina Muscoli

Contributed equally to this work with: Carolina Muscoli, Marco Colasanti

Affiliation IRC-FSH, Department of Health Science, University of ‘Magna Graecia’, Catanzaro, Italy

Marco Colasanti

Contributed equally to this work with: Carolina Muscoli, Marco Colasanti

marco.colasanti@uniroma3.it

Affiliation Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: V. Malafoglia TP CM MC. Performed the experiments: V. Malafoglia LT FDG FL VR. Analyzed the data: V. Malafoglia MS TP CM MC. Wrote the paper: V. Malafoglia DS TP V. Mollace MF WR CM MC.