About the Authors
- Anna Sansone
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Affiliation ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy
- Evanthia Tolika
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Affiliation ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy
- Maria Louka
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Affiliation Lipinutragen srl, Lipidomic Laboratory, Bologna, Italy
- Valentina Sunda
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Affiliation Lipinutragen srl, Lipidomic Laboratory, Bologna, Italy
- Simone Deplano
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Affiliation Lipinutragen srl, Lipidomic Laboratory, Bologna, Italy
- Michele Melchiorre
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Affiliation Lipinutragen srl, Lipidomic Laboratory, Bologna, Italy
- Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos
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Affiliation Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN), N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Athens, Greece
- Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu
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Affiliation Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN), N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Athens, Greece
- Cesare Formisano
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Affiliation University of Napoli “Federico II”, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Napoli, Italy
- Rosa Di Micco
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Affiliation University of Napoli “Federico II”, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Napoli, Italy
- Maria Rosaria Faraone Mennella
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Affiliation University of Napoli “Federico II”, Department of Biology, Napoli, Italy
- Carla Ferreri
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* E-mail: carla.ferreri@isof.cnr.it
Affiliation ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy
Competing Interests
CC and CF are founders of the company Lipinutragen srl, born as spin-off company officially recognized by the National Council of Research, Italy. Lipinutragen srl is interested in applications of membrane lipidomics in molecular diagnostics and health care, and participated to the study by providing the salaries of three employees involved in the data collection and analyses (VS, SD and MM). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, which are unrestricted. No other competing interests of any nature (financial, non-financial, professional or personal) are envisaged.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: C. Ferreri. Performed the experiments: AS ET ML VS SD MM DA C. Formisano RDM. Analyzed the data: MRFM C. Ferreri CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC C. Ferreri. Wrote the paper: C. Ferreri CC AS. Obtained the permit for the ethical committee: C. Formisano.