About the Authors

Enrico Bertaggia

Contributed equally to this work with: Enrico Bertaggia, Gaia Scabia, Stefania Dalise

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute at Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy

Gaia Scabia

Contributed equally to this work with: Enrico Bertaggia, Gaia Scabia, Stefania Dalise

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Stefania Dalise

Contributed equally to this work with: Enrico Bertaggia, Gaia Scabia, Stefania Dalise

Affiliation Unit of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neuroscience, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Francesca Lo Verso

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute at Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy

Ferruccio Santini

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Paolo Vitti

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Carmelo Chisari

c.chisari@ao-pisa.toscana.it (CC); marco.sandri@unipd.it (MS); maffeim@immr.med.unipi.it (MM)

Affiliation Unit of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neuroscience, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Marco Sandri

c.chisari@ao-pisa.toscana.it (CC); marco.sandri@unipd.it (MS); maffeim@immr.med.unipi.it (MM)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute at Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy, CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, Italy, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Napoli, Italy

Margherita Maffei

c.chisari@ao-pisa.toscana.it (CC); marco.sandri@unipd.it (MS); maffeim@immr.med.unipi.it (MM)

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB GS SD CC MS MM. Performed the experiments: EB GS SD FLV. Analyzed the data: EB GS SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS PV CC MS MM. Wrote the paper: MS MM. Revised critically the manuscript: FS PV MM MS.