De Rose, Elisabetta
D’Aquila, Patrizia
Di Nardo, Veronica
De Rango, Francesco
Sena, Giada
Perrotta, Annamaria
Cundari, Claudia
De Bartolo, Anna
Rocca, Carmine
Gabriele, Domenico
Salamone, Maurizio
Passarino, Giuseppe
Angelone, Tommaso
Bellizzi, Dina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-456X
Article History
Received: 26 May 2026
Accepted: 5 August 2026
First Online: 19 August 2026
Declarations
Ethical approval: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Italian law (D.L. 26/2014), the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published bythe US National Institutes of Health (2011) and the Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament on the protection of animals used for science. The project was as first approved by the Animal Welfare Body (OPBA) of the University of Calabria and then by the Italian Ministry of Health, Rome with Authorization n° 1080/2024-PR.
Conflict of interest: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Authors Veronica Di Nardo and Maurizio Salamone were employed by the company Metagenics Italia srl. They were not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication.