About the Authors

José M. Alvarez-Suarez

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche – Sez. Biochimica, Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Dragana Dekanski

Affiliation Biomedical Research, R&D Institute, Galenika a.d., Belgrade, Serbia

Slavica Ristić

Affiliation Biomedical Research, R&D Institute, Galenika a.d., Belgrade, Serbia

Nevena V. Radonjić

Affiliation Institute of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Nataša D. Petronijević

Affiliation Institute of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Francesca Giampieri

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche – Sez. Biochimica, Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Paola Astolfi

Affiliation ISAC-Chemistry Division, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy

Ana M. González-Paramás

Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Polifenoles (GIP-USAL), Faculty of Pharmacy, Salamanca University, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, Salamanca, Spain

Celestino Santos-Buelga

Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Polifenoles (GIP-USAL), Faculty of Pharmacy, Salamanca University, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, Salamanca, Spain

Sara Tulipani

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Science-CeRTA, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

José L. Quiles

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Biomedical Research Center, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Bruno Mezzetti

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Crop Science (SAPROV), Faculty of Agriculture, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy

Maurizio Battino

m.a.battino@univpm.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche – Sez. Biochimica, Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. DD and SR are employed by Galenika a.d. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DD MB. Performed the experiments: JAS DD SR NVR NDP FG PA AGP CSB ST JLQ BM MB. Analyzed the data: JAS DD SR NVR NDP FG PA AGP CSB ST JLQ BM MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD MB. Wrote the paper: JAS FG MB.