About the Authors

Lucantonio Debellis

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucantonio Debellis, Anna Diana

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Anna Diana

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucantonio Debellis, Anna Diana

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Diletta Arcidiacono

Affiliation Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy

Romina Fiorotto

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Piero Portincasa

Affiliation Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, Department of Internal and Public Medicine, University Medical School, Bari, Italy

Donato Francesco Altomare

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, General Surgery and Liver Transplantation Units, University of Bari, Policlinico, Bari, Italy

Carlo Spirlì

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Marina de Bernard

marina.debernard@unipd.it

Affiliations Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy, Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD AD DA CS MDB. Performed the experiments: LD AD DA RF. Analyzed the data: LD CS MDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD PP DFA MDB. Wrote the paper: LD MDB.