About the Authors

Davide Lecca

Contributed equally to this work with: Davide Lecca, Maria Letizia Trincavelli, Paolo Gelosa, Mauro Cimino, Maria P. Abbracchio

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Maria Letizia Trincavelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Davide Lecca, Maria Letizia Trincavelli, Paolo Gelosa, Mauro Cimino, Maria P. Abbracchio

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Paolo Gelosa

Contributed equally to this work with: Davide Lecca, Maria Letizia Trincavelli, Paolo Gelosa, Mauro Cimino, Maria P. Abbracchio

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Luigi Sironi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Paolo Ciana

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Marta Fumagalli

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Giovanni Villa

Affiliations Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Centro Neurolesi “Bonino-Pulejo” IRCCS, Messina, Italy

Claudia Verderio

Affiliation CNR Institute of Neuroscience, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Carlotta Grumelli

Affiliation CNR Institute of Neuroscience, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Uliano Guerrini

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Elena Tremoli

Affiliations Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Monzino Cardiologic Center IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Patrizia Rosa

Affiliation CNR Institute of Neuroscience, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Serena Cuboni

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Claudia Martini

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Annalisa Buffo

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Mauro Cimino

Contributed equally to this work with: Davide Lecca, Maria Letizia Trincavelli, Paolo Gelosa, Mauro Cimino, Maria P. Abbracchio

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy

Maria P. Abbracchio

Contributed equally to this work with: Davide Lecca, Maria Letizia Trincavelli, Paolo Gelosa, Mauro Cimino, Maria P. Abbracchio

mariapia.abbracchio@unimi.it

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

MLT, PC, CV, CM and MPA are inventors in the Italian Patent Application #2004A002007 on “Modulatori del recettore GPR17 e loro impieghi terapeutici” submitted on October 21, 2004.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL MLT PG LS MF CV PR CM AB MC MPA. Performed the experiments: DL MLT PG MF GV CG PR SC AB MC. Analyzed the data: DL MLT PG LS MF GV CV PR AB MC MPA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLT LS PC CV CG UG ET PR SC CM. Wrote the paper: DL AB MC MPA.