EDITOR IN CHIEF
CAMILLO RICORDI, MD, FNAI
Stacy Joy Goodman Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Cellular Transplantation; Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology; Director, Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors, USA
CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF
DAVID DELLA MORTE CANOSCI, MD, PhD
Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Neurology and Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of the Quality of Life, San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
NICOLA DI DANIELE, MD
Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
FERDINANDO IELLAMO, MD
Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
ASSISTANT EDITOR
FILIPPO CREMONINI, MD
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD
MASSIMO ANTONELLI, Professor, Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Institute, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
MARCO ARTICO, Full Professor in Human Anatomy, Department of Sensory Organs, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
FRANCESCO BANDELLO, MD, FEBO, Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, University Vita-Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
CRISTIANO GIUSTI, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Campus Biomedico, University of Rome, Italy
SHAN-PING JIANG, Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, GuangZhou, China
CARMELO SCARPIGNATO, Professor, Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine & Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
BARRY SEARS, Inflammation Research Foundation, Peabody, MA, USA
DON D. SIN, St. Paul’s Hospital, and James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
EDITORIAL BOARD
MARIA ALBANESE, Department of System Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
GEORGES AZAR, Faculty of Medicine, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon; Eye and Ear University Hospital, Naccash Road, Dbayeh, Metn, Lebanon
MASSIMILIANO BERRETTA, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina Italy
RAFFAELLA N. BERCHIOLLI, Vascular Surgery Unit, Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Department A.O.U.P., Translational Research and New Surgical and Medical Technologies Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
STEFANO BORIANI, Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery, Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy
WILLIAM J. BRADY, Professor of Emergency Medicine & Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
RAFFAELE BRUNO, Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
FRANCESCO P. BUSARDÓ, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, University Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
GINO R. CORAZZA, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Pavia, Italy
MASSIMO CORDARO, Dean of the School of Dentistry, Chair of Ortodontics; School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
ANTONIO COSTANZO, Department of Dermatology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
MARCELLO COVINO, Emergency Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma
DIEGO CURRÒ, Institute of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
LISSANDRA DAL LAGO, Medicine Department of Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
ANTONINO DE LORENZO, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
DANIEL A. DE LUIS, Unit of Investigation, Institute of Endocrinology and Nutrition, School of Medicine, Hospital Rio Hortega, University of Valladolid, Spain
LUCA ANDREA DESSY, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
ROSA P. DE VINCENZO, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
GIANCARLO DI GENNARO, Head of Epilepsy Surgery Center, IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli (IS), Italy
SIMONA DI GIAMBENEDETTO, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
GIANNA DIPALMA, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
LAURA DI RENZO, Section of Clinical Nutrition and Nutrigenomics, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
MANFREDI GRECO, Unità di Chirurgia Plastica e Ricostruttiva, Università “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy
GABRIELE FINCO, Anestesiology and Intensive Care, Department of Medical Sciences “M. Aresu”, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
FRANCESCO FIORICA, Radiotherapy Oncology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
ANDREA FLEX, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
GIANLUCA FRANCESCHINI, General Surgery, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
ANTONIO FREGA, Department of Medical and Surgical Science and Translation Medicine, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
ALESSANDRO GASBARRINI, Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery, Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy
GIOVANNI GASBARRINI, Internal Medicine Institute, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
RICCARDO GHERMANDI, Spine Surgery Oncologic and Degenerative, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
SILVIA GIOVANNINI, Department of Geriatric, Neurological and Orthopedic Sciences and Head Neck Sciences, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
ANTONIO GRIECO, Department of Internal Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
FIORELLA GUADAGNI, IRCCS San Raffaele Roma, Rome, Italy; Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of the Quality of Life, San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy
GIUSEPPE GULLO, IVF Unit AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
LYNN GUO, Cardiovascular Science Center, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
LAN HONG, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
FRANCESCO INCHINGOLO, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine. University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
MARCO INFANTE, UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy
DAVIDE LAURO, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
FRANCO LISI, IVF/ICSI Unit, Villa Salaria Hospital, Rome, Italy
JING LIU, Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, China
PAOLO F. MANICONE, Division of Oral Surgery and Implantology, Department of Head and Neck and Sensory Organs, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
MARCO MARCASCIANO, Division of Plastic Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
ROBERTO MARCI, Unit of Reproductive Medicine and Endometriosis, Department of Gynaecology-Obstetrics, Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
SUSANNA MARINELLI, School of Law, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
MARTINE MAUGET-FAŸSSE, Rothschild Foundation, Paris, France
FRANCIS MEGRAUD, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, C.H.U. Pellegrin Place Amelie Raba-Leon, Bordeaux Cedex, France
MARIA C. MELE, Clinical Nutrition Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
SULTAN AYOUB MEO, Professor and Consultant in Clinical Physiology, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ALPARSLAN MERDIN, Associate Professor of Hematology, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Gulhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
GIUSEPPE MERRA, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
ANTONIO MINNI, Department of Sensory Organs, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
MONICA MONTOPOLI, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
SEBASTIAN MUELLER, Director, Centre of Alcohol Research (CAR), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, and Vice Head, Department of Medicine, Salem Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany
ENRICO NASTRO SINISCALCHI, Unit of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinic G. Martino, Messina, Italy
ISABELLA NERI, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
ANNALISA NOCE, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
VERONICA OJETTI, Emergency Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
GERMANO ORRÙ, Molecular Biology Service (MBS), Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
FRANCESCA PACIFICI, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
DONATELLA PASTORE, Department of Human Science and Quality of Life Promotion, San Raffaele Rome University, Rome, Italy
VALERIO PAPA, Department of General Surgery, San Carlo di Nancy Hospital, Rome; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
SURESH K. PARAMASIVAM, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
GIORGIO POMPA, Associate Professor, Director Implant-Prosthetic Unit, Vice-President Faculty Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
FILIPPO RENÒ, Associate Professor of Human Anatomy, Health Sciences Department, Medical School of the University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”, Novara, Italy
DIEGO RIBUFFO, Head, Full Professor of Plastic Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
RICCARDO RICCI, Pathology Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
LUCA RICHELDI, Head, Division of Respiratory Disease, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy
LUCA RINALDI, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Science, University of Campania, Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
VINCENZO ROCCHETTI, Associate Professor of Odontostomatology, Health Sciences Department, Medical School of the University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”, Novara, Italy
VALENTINA ROVELLA, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
ANGELO SANTOLIQUIDO, Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
LUCA SANTORO, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
FRANCESCO SESTI, Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy
BRUNO SPOSATO, Pneumology Department, Misericordia Hospital, Grosseto (USLSUDEST Toscana), Italy
GIOVANNI TINELLI, Vascular Surgery Unit, Cardiovascular Area, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
PAOLO TONDI, Professor of Angiology, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
GABRIELE TUCCI, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, S. Giuseppe Hospital, Rome, Italy
VITTORIO UNFER, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
YOSHIO YAMAOKA, Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology (111D), Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affaire, Houston, TX, USA
WEI ZHANG, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
SIMONA ZAAMI, Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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