About the Authors

Paola Iovino

piovino@unisa.it

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Giuseppe Chiarioni

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology of the University of Verona, A.O.U.I., Verona, Italy and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology & Center for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Giancarlo Bilancio

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Massimo Cirillo

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Igor B. Mekjavic

Affiliation Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rado Pisot

Affiliation Scientific Research Center, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

Carolina Ciacci

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PI MC IBM RP CC. Performed the experiments: PI GB IBM RP. Analyzed the data: PI GC. Wrote the manuscript: PI GC CC.