About the Authors

Maria Pina Dore

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Giuseppina Marras

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Chiara Rocchi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Sara Soro

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Giovanni Mario Pes

gmpes@uniss.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy, Istituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi, Sassari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPD GMP. Performed the experiments: MPD GMP GM CR SS. Analyzed the data: GMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPD GM CR SS. Wrote the paper: MPD GMP.