Author contributions
M Manchia wrote the first draft and performed the literature search. A Squassina, A Antoniades and F Tozzi contributed to draft preparation and critically revised the manuscript. B Carpiniello co-wrote the manuscript and critically revised it.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
This work was partly funded by Fondo Integrativo per la Ricerca 2018, granted to A Squassina, and by Fondo Integrativo per la Ricerca 2020, granted to M Manchia and B Carpiniello. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.