**Author details**

Dragos Cretoiu1,2†, Maria Giuliana Vannucchi3†, Yihua Bei4†, Mirko Manetti3 , Maria Simonetta Faussone-Pellegrini3 , Lidia Ibba-Manneschi3 , Junjie Xiao4 and Sanda Maria Cretoiu1 \*

1 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Histology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

2 Alessandrescu-Rusescu National Institute of Mother and Child Health, Fetal Medicine Excellence Research Center, Bucharest, Romania

3 Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Anatomy and Histology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

4 Cardiac Regeneration and Ageing Lab, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

\*Address all correspondence to: sanda@cretoiu.ro

† These authors are contributed equally.

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