About the Authors

Rosa A. Cardone

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Giovanni Busco

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Maria R. Greco

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Antonia Bellizzi

Affiliation Clinical Experimental Oncology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute Giovanni Paolo II, Bari, Italy

Rosita Accardi

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Biology Group, IARC-WHO, Lyon, France

Antonella Cafarelli

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Stefania Monterisi

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Pierluigi Carratù

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Valeria Casavola

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Angelo Paradiso

Affiliation Clinical Experimental Oncology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute Giovanni Paolo II, Bari, Italy

Massimo Tommasino

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Biology Group, IARC-WHO, Lyon, France

Stephan J. Reshkin

reshkin@biologia.uniba.it

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAC MT SJR. Performed the experiments: RAC GB MRG AB RA AC SM. Analyzed the data: RAC PC VC AP MT SJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT. Wrote the paper: RAC VC SJR.