About the Authors

Rosalinda Madonna

Affiliations Center of Aging Sciences and Translational Medicine – CESI-MeT, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy, Institute of Cardiology, Department of Neurosciences, Imaging, and Clinical Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy

Francesca Vera Renna

Affiliation Center of Aging Sciences and Translational Medicine – CESI-MeT, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy

Paola Lanuti

Affiliation Institute of Cardiology, Department of Neurosciences, Imaging, and Clinical Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy

Matteo Perfetti

Affiliation Institute of Cardiology, Department of Neurosciences, Imaging, and Clinical Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy

Marco Marchisio

Affiliations Center of Aging Sciences and Translational Medicine – CESI.MeT, Chieti, Italy, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy

Carlo Briguori

Affiliation Clinica Mediterranea, Naples, Italy

Gerolama Condorelli

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies "Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Lamberto Manzoli

Affiliations Center of Aging Sciences and Translational Medicine – CESI-MeT, Chieti, Italy, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; Regional Healthcare Agency of Abruzzo, Pescara, Italy

Raffaele De Caterina

rdecater@unich.it

Affiliations Center of Aging Sciences and Translational Medicine – CESI-MeT, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy, Institute of Cardiology, Department of Neurosciences, Imaging, and Clinical Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RM RDC. Data curation: RM FVR PL MP MM. Formal analysis: RM LM RDC. Funding acquisition: RDC. Investigation: RM FVR PL MP MM. Methodology: RM PL MM CB GC RDC. Resources: RDC. Supervision: RM MM CB GC RDC. Validation: RM MM CB RDC. Writing – original draft: RM MM CB GC RDC. Writing – review & editing: RM MM CB GC RDC.