About the Authors

Maria Consiglia Trotta

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Rosa Maisto

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Francesca Guida

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Serena Boccella

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Livio Luongo

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Cornel Balta

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania

Giovanbattista D’Amico

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania

Hildegard Herman

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania

Anca Hermenean

Roles Resources

Affiliations Institute of Life Sciences, Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Claudio Bucolo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Center for Research in Ocular Pharmacology—CERFO University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Michele D’Amico

Roles Supervision

michele.damico@unicampania.it

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.