About the Authors

Manuela Mancini

mancini_manu@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Elisa Leo

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Ken-Ichi Takemaru

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Virginia Campi

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Fausto Castagnetti

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Simona Soverini

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Caterina De Benedittis

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Gianantonio Rosti

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Michele Cavo

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Maria Alessandra Santucci

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Giovanni Martinelli

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES—Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli". University of Bologna-Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM EL KIT. Performed the experiments: MM EL VC. Analyzed the data: MM KIT MAS SS FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KIT FC GR CD. Wrote the paper: MAS KIT MM MC SS GM.