About the Authors

Viviana Cavalca

viviana.cavalca@unimi.it

Affiliations Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e di Comunità, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Fabrizio Veglia

Affiliation Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy

Isabella Squellerio

Affiliation Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy

Monica De Metrio

Affiliation Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy

Mara Rubino

Affiliation Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy

Benedetta Porro

Affiliation Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy

Marco Moltrasio

Affiliation Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy

Elena Tremoli

Affiliations Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Giancarlo Marenzi

Affiliation Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC FV ET GM. Performed the experiments: IS BP. Analyzed the data: VC FV IS GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD MR MM. Wrote the paper: VC FV BP ET GM.