About the Authors

Silvia Del Ry

delry@ifc.cnr.it

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Manuela Cabiati

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Vincenzo Lionetti

Affiliation Institute for Life Sciences, Laboratory of Medical Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

Giovanni D. Aquaro

Affiliation Fondazione CNR-Regione Toscana “G. Monasterio”, MRI Lab, Pisa, Italy

Alessandro Martino

Affiliation Department of Biology, Genetics Division, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Letizia Mattii

Affiliation Department of Human Morphology and Applied Biology, Medical Histology and Embryology Section, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Maria-Aurora Morales

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDR. Performed the experiments: MC VL GDA AM LM. Analyzed the data: SDR MC AM MAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDR MC VL AM GDA LM MAM. Wrote the paper: SDR MAM.