About the Authors
- Michelangela Barbieri
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michelangela Barbieri, Clara Di Filippo
Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Clara Di Filippo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michelangela Barbieri, Clara Di Filippo
Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Pharmacology L. Donatelli, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Antonietta Esposito
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Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Raffaele Marfella
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Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Maria Rosaria Rizzo
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Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Michele D'Amico
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Pharmacology L. Donatelli, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Franca Ferraraccio
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Cristina Di Ronza
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Pharmacology L. Donatelli, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Sheng Zhong Duan
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- Richard M. Mortensen
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Affiliation Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes Division, Departments of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Pharmacology, and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Francesco Rossi
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Pharmacology L. Donatelli, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Giuseppe Paolisso
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* E-mail: giuseppe.paolisso@unina2.it
Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MB CDF AE RM MRR MDA FR GP SZD. Performed the experiments: MB CDF AE RM MDA FF CDR SZD RMM. Analyzed the data: MB RM MRR GP FR MDA CDF AE RMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB CDF GP FF MDA. Wrote the paper: MB CDF MR MRR GP. Performed anatomy pathology analysis: FF. Participated in the creation of PPAR-γ–knockout (CM-PGKO) mice: SZD RMM.