Affiliation: | a Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy b School and Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy c Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology “A. Monroy” Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology—CNR, Palermo, Italy d Unit of Tissue Typing, Department of Pathology and Experimental Microbiology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy |