About the Authors

Monica Puligheddu

Contributed equally to this work with: Monica Puligheddu, Giuliano Pillolla

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Giuliano Pillolla

Contributed equally to this work with: Monica Puligheddu, Giuliano Pillolla

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Miriam Melis

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, C.N.R. Neuroscience Institute, Cagliari, Italy

Salvatore Lecca

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Francesco Marrosu

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Maria Graziella De Montis

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Simona Scheggi

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Gianfranca Carta

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Elisabetta Murru

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Sonia Aroni

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Anna Lisa Muntoni

Affiliation C.N.R. Neuroscience Institute, Cagliari, Italy

Marco Pistis

mpistis@unica.it

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, C.N.R. Neuroscience Institute, Cagliari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Puligheddu FM ALM M. Pistis. Performed the experiments: GP MM SL MGM SS SA GC EM ALM M. Pistis. Analyzed the data: M. Puligheddu GP MM SL MGM SS GC EM ALM M. Pistis. Wrote the paper: FM M. Pistis.