About the Authors

Dorianna Sandonà

Contributed equally to this work with: Dorianna Sandonà, Jean-Francois Desaphy

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

Jean-Francois Desaphy

Contributed equally to this work with: Dorianna Sandonà, Jean-Francois Desaphy

Affiliation Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacobiology, University of Bari, Italy

Giulia M. Camerino

Affiliation Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacobiology, University of Bari, Italy

Elisa Bianchini

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

Stefano Ciciliot

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padova, Italy

Daniela Danieli-Betto

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padova, Italy

Gabriella Dobrowolny

Affiliation DAHFMO-Unit of Histology and Medical Embryology, Sapienza University, IIM, Rome, Italy

Sandra Furlan

Affiliation National Research Council, Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, Italy

Elena Germinario

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padova, Italy

Katsumasa Goto

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Toyohashi Sozo University, Toyohashi-shi, Aichi, Japan

Martina Gutsmann

Affiliation Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Vegetative Anatomy and Zentrum für Weltraummedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fuminori Kawano

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan

Naoya Nakai

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan

Takashi Ohira

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan

Yoshitaka Ohno

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Toyohashi Sozo University, Toyohashi-shi, Aichi, Japan

Anne Picard

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

Michele Salanova

Affiliation Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Vegetative Anatomy and Zentrum für Weltraummedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gudrun Schiffl

Affiliation Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Vegetative Anatomy and Zentrum für Weltraummedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Dieter Blottner

Affiliation Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Vegetative Anatomy and Zentrum für Weltraummedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Antonio Musarò

Affiliation DAHFMO-Unit of Histology and Medical Embryology, Sapienza University, IIM, Rome, Italy

Yoshinobu Ohira

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan

Romeo Betto

romeo.betto@bio.unipd.it (RB); conte@farmbiol.uniba.it (DC); stefano.schiaffino@vimm.it (SS)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation National Research Council, Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, Italy

Diana Conte

romeo.betto@bio.unipd.it (RB); conte@farmbiol.uniba.it (DC); stefano.schiaffino@vimm.it (SS)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacobiology, University of Bari, Italy

Stefano Schiaffino

romeo.betto@bio.unipd.it (RB); conte@farmbiol.uniba.it (DC); stefano.schiaffino@vimm.it (SS)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFD DB AM Y. Ohira RB DC SS. Performed the experiments: DS GMC EB SC DDB GD SF EG KG MG FK NN TO Y. Ohno AP MS GS. Analyzed the data: JFD DDB MS Y. Ohira KG RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFD RB DC SS. Wrote the paper: RB.