About the Authors

Giovanni Caruso

Affiliation Construction Technologies Institute, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

Paolo Bisegna

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Leonardo Lenoci

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniele Andreucci

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Methods and Models, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Vsevolod V. Gurevich

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Heidi E. Hamm

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Emmanuele DiBenedetto

em.diben@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ED. Performed the experiments: GC LL. Analyzed the data: GC PB DA VVG HEH ED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC PB. Wrote the paper: ED. Directed the investigation: ED.