About the Authors

Giulia Pinton

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug and Food Biotechnology Center, University of Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Novara, Italy

Arcangela Gabriella Manente

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug and Food Biotechnology Center, University of Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Novara, Italy

Giovanni Angeli

Affiliation Service of Pathology, Vercelli Hospital, Vercelli, Italy

Luciano Mutti

Contributed equally to this work with: Luciano Mutti, Laura Moro

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vercelli Hospital, Vercelli, Italy

Laura Moro

Contributed equally to this work with: Luciano Mutti, Laura Moro

moro@pharm.unipmn.it

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug and Food Biotechnology Center, University of Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Novara, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM LM. Performed the experiments: GP AM. Analyzed the data: LM LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GA. Wrote the paper: GP LM LM.