About the Authors
- Rosa Di Paola
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* E-mail: r.dipaola@operapadrepio.it (RDP); v.trischitta@operapadrepio.it (VT); lfritti@unict.it (LF)
Affiliation Research Unit of Diabetes and Endocrine Diseases, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
- Nunzia Caporarello
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Affiliation Unit of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania Medical School, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy
- Antonella Marucci
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Affiliation Research Unit of Diabetes and Endocrine Diseases, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
- Claudia Dimatteo
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Affiliation Research Unit of Diabetes and Endocrine Diseases, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
- Claudia Iadicicco
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare and Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Silvia Del Guerra
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Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Sabrina Prudente
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Affiliation IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Mendel Laboratory”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
- Dora Sudano
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Affiliation Unit of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania Medical School, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy
- Claudia Miele
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare and Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Cristina Parrino
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Affiliation Unit of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania Medical School, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy
- Salvatore Piro
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Affiliation Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania Medical School, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy
- Francesco Beguinot
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare and Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Piero Marchetti
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Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Vincenzo Trischitta
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Contributed equally to this work with: Vincenzo Trischitta, Lucia Frittitta
* E-mail: r.dipaola@operapadrepio.it (RDP); v.trischitta@operapadrepio.it (VT); lfritti@unict.it (LF)
Affiliations Research Unit of Diabetes and Endocrine Diseases, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Mendel Laboratory”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
- Lucia Frittitta
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Contributed equally to this work with: Vincenzo Trischitta, Lucia Frittitta
* E-mail: r.dipaola@operapadrepio.it (RDP); v.trischitta@operapadrepio.it (VT); lfritti@unict.it (LF)
Affiliation Unit of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania Medical School, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RDP NC AM CD CI SDG DS CP S. Piro S. Prudente CM FB PM VT LF. Performed the experiments: NC AM CD CI SDG DS CP S. Piro S. Prudente. Analyzed the data: RDP CM PM VT LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDP FB PM VT LF. Wrote the paper: RDP VT.