About the Authors

Marcella Massimini

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Gianmarco Del Vecchio

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Francesca Ciaramellano

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy, European Center for Brain Research/Institute for Research and Health Care (IRCCS) Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy

Isa Fusaro

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Amilcare Barca

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Mariarita Romanucci

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Melania Giammarco

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Chiara Amatetti

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Benedetta Bachetti

Roles Data curation

Affiliation R&D Division, C.I.A.M. Srl, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Marco Di Domenico

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Gianluca Nicolai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation R&D Division, C.I.A.M. Srl, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Barbara Secondini

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Andrea Di Credico

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Reprogramming and Cell Differentiation Lab, Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), Chieti, Italy

Vittoria Di Tecco

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Angela Di Baldassarre

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Reprogramming and Cell Differentiation Lab, Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), Chieti, Italy

Cesare Cammà

Roles Supervision

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Tiziano Verri

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Sergio Oddi

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy, European Center for Brain Research/Institute for Research and Health Care (IRCCS) Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy

Leonardo Della Salda

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ldellasalda@unite.it

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.