About the Authors

Mara Castelli

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Giada Amodeo

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Lucia Negri

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology ‘Vittorio Erspamer’, University of Rome, Roma, Italy

Roberta Lattanzi

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology ‘Vittorio Erspamer’, University of Rome, Roma, Italy

Daniela Maftei

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology ‘Vittorio Erspamer’, University of Rome, Roma, Italy

Cecilia Gotti

Affiliation Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute of Neuroscience, Milano, Italy

Francesco Pistillo

Affiliation Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute of Neuroscience, Milano, Italy

Valentina Onnis

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Unit of Pharmaceutical, Pharmacological and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Cenzo Congu

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Unit of Pharmaceutical, Pharmacological and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Alberto E. Panerai

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Paola Sacerdote

paola.sacerdote@unimi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Silvia Franchi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS LN RL AEP SF. Performed the experiments: MC GA DM CG FP SF. Analyzed the data: MC PS AEP SF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VO CC. Wrote the paper: MC PS LN AEP SF.