About the Authors

Luigi Clauser

Contributed equally to this work with: Luigi Clauser, Letizia Ferroni

Affiliation Unit of Cranio Maxillo Facial Surgery, Center for Craniofacial Deformities and Orbital Surgery – Reference Center for Rare Disease, Sant'Anna Hospital and University, Cona, Ferrara, Italy

Letizia Ferroni

Contributed equally to this work with: Luigi Clauser, Letizia Ferroni

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

Chiara Gardin

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

Riccardo Tieghi

Affiliation Unit of Cranio Maxillo Facial Surgery, Center for Craniofacial Deformities and Orbital Surgery – Reference Center for Rare Disease, Sant'Anna Hospital and University, Cona, Ferrara, Italy

Manlio Galiè

Affiliation Unit of Cranio Maxillo Facial Surgery, Center for Craniofacial Deformities and Orbital Surgery – Reference Center for Rare Disease, Sant'Anna Hospital and University, Cona, Ferrara, Italy

Giovanni Elia

Affiliation Unit of Cranio Maxillo Facial Surgery, Center for Craniofacial Deformities and Orbital Surgery – Reference Center for Rare Disease, Sant'Anna Hospital and University, Cona, Ferrara, Italy

Adriano Piattelli

Affiliation Department of Medical, Oral, and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy

Paolo Pinton

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Section of Pathology Oncology and Experimental Biology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Eriberto Bressan

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Barbara Zavan

barbara.zavan@unipd.it

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZ LC. Performed the experiments: LF CG RT GE. Analyzed the data: MG PP EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZ. Wrote the paper: AP BZ.