About the Authors

Rocco Barazzoni

barazzon@units.it

Affiliation Clinica Medica - Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Michela Zanetti

Affiliation Clinica Medica - Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Annamaria Semolic

Affiliation Clinica Medica - Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Maria Rosa Cattin

Affiliation Clinica Medica - Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Alessia Pirulli

Affiliation Clinica Medica - Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Luigi Cattin

Affiliation Clinica Medica - Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Gianfranco Guarnieri

Affiliation Clinica Medica - Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB. Performed the experiments: RB MRC AP LC. Analyzed the data: MZ AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB LC. Wrote the paper: RB. Critically revised the manuscript, interpreted data: RB MZ GG.