About the Authors

Iulia I. Nita

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Michal Hershfinkel

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Daniel Fishman

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Eyal Ozeri

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Guy A. Rutter

Affiliation Section of Cell Biology, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Stefano L. Sensi

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy, Molecular Neurology Unit, Center of Excellence on Aging, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Daniel Khananshvili

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

Eli C. Lewis

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Israel Sekler

sekler@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IN IS MH EL. Performed the experiments: IN DF. Analyzed the data: IN MH GR DK IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL EO DF. Wrote the paper: IN IS MH GR DK SLS.