About the Authors

Georgia Chachami

Affiliations Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece, Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology (BIOMED/CERETETH), Larissa, Greece

Alkmini Kalousi

Affiliations Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece, Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology (BIOMED/CERETETH), Larissa, Greece

Loukia Papatheodorou

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece

Aggeliki Lyberopoulou

Affiliations Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece, Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology (BIOMED/CERETETH), Larissa, Greece

Vasileios Nasikas

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece

Keiji Tanimoto

Affiliation Department of Translational Cancer Research, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

George Simos

Affiliations Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece, Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology (BIOMED/CERETETH), Larissa, Greece

Konstantinos N. Malizos

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology (BIOMED/CERETETH), Larissa, Greece, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece

Eleni Georgatsou

egeorgat@med.uth.gr

Affiliations Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece, Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology (BIOMED/CERETETH), Larissa, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG KNM GS. Performed the experiments: GC AK AL VN EG. Analyzed the data: GC EG LP KNM GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT KNM GS EG. Wrote the paper: GC EG.