Article Information
- Received May 28, 2014
- Revision received March 18, 2015
- Accepted March 22, 2015
- First published May 13, 2015.
- Version of record published May 13, 2015.
Author Information
- Luigi Formisano1,2,*,
- Natascia Guida3,*,
- Valeria Valsecchi1,
- Maria Cantile1,
- Ornella Cuomo1,
- Antonio Vinciguerra1,
- Giusy Laudati1,
- Giuseppe Pignataro1,
- Rossana Sirabella3,
- Gianfranco Di Renzo1, and
- Lucio Annunziato1,3
- 1Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Dentistry Sciences, School of Medicine, “Federico II” University of Naples, Naples 80131, Italy,
- 2Division of Pharmacology, Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy, and
- 3IRCSS SDN, Naples 80131, Italy
Author contributions
Author contributions: L.F., N.G., V.V., and L.A. designed research; L.F., N.G., V.V., M.C., O.C., A.V., G.L., G.P., and R.S. performed research; V.V. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; L.F. and N.G. analyzed data; L.F., N.G., G.D.R., and L.A. wrote the paper.
↵*L.F. and N.G. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received May 28, 2014.
- Revision received March 18, 2015.
- Accepted March 22, 2015.
This work was supported by Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca Grant PON PON01_01602 and PON03PE_00146_1 all to L.A. We thank Dr Paola Merolla for editorial revision and all the members of the L.A. laboratory for their constructive comments on the data and the manuscript; Prof. Antonella Scorziello and Dr Maria Josè Sisalli for teaching us the rat neuronal culture and for many stimulating discussions; and Prof. Nicola Zambrano for helping us to perform and analyze EMSA experiments.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Lucio Annunziato, Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Dentistry Sciences, School of Medicine, “Federico II” University of Naples, Via Sergio Pansini 5, Naples 80131, Italy. lannunzi{at}unina.it
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