Pepe, Pietro
Vatrano, Simona
Cannarella, Rossella
Calogero, Aldo E.
Marchese, Giovanna
Ravo, Maria
Fraggetta, Filippo
Pepe, Ludovica
Pennisi, Michele
Romano, Corrado
Ferri, Raffaele
Salemi, Michele http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1075-8993
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Italian “5 x 1000” funding (This study was supported by The Italian “5 x 1000” funding)
Article History
Received: 23 August 2021
Accepted: 27 September 2021
First Online: 10 October 2021
Declarations
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: The authors Pietro Pepe, Simona Vatrano, Rossella Cannarella, Aldo E. Calogero, Giovanna Marchese, Maria Ravo, Filippo Fraggetta, Ludovica Pepe, Michele Pennisi, Corrado Romano, Raffaele Ferri and Michele Salemi confirm that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Ethics Committee of the Oasi Research Institute–IRCCS, Troina (Italy) approved the protocol on June 03, 2017 (2017/05/31/CE-IRCCS-OASI/9).
: All the study participants, or their legal guardians, signed an informed consent to publish.