About the Authors

Giuseppe Esposito

Contributed equally to this work with: Giuseppe Esposito, Caterina Scuderi

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “Vittorio Erspamer”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Caterina Scuderi

Contributed equally to this work with: Giuseppe Esposito, Caterina Scuderi

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “Vittorio Erspamer”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Marta Valenza

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Human Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Giuseppina Ines Togna

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “Vittorio Erspamer”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Valentina Latina

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “Vittorio Erspamer”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Daniele De Filippis

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Mariateresa Cipriano

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Maria Rosaria Carratù

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Human Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Teresa Iuvone

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pharmacology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Luca Steardo

luca.steardo@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “Vittorio Erspamer”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GE CS. Performed the experiments: MV VL GIT DDF MC TI. Analyzed the data: MRC LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GE CS MRC LS. Wrote the paper: GE CS LS.