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"appendix a supplementary material the following are the supplementary data to this article: supplementary data 1 acknowledgments this work was supported in part by grants of (por fesr 2014/2020 task force covid-19 dgr 140 - 17 march 2020 and "ciro project: infrastructures and scientific instrumentation" devoted to the ceinge-advanced biotechnologies at the university of naples "federico ii" and by an unrestricted grant from kraft heinz italia spa latina italy an affiliate of the kraft heinz company co-headquartered in pittsburgh pa and chicago il usa."

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"AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported in part by grants of 10.13039/501100003852Regione Campania (POR FESR 2014/2020, Task Force Covid-19 DGR 140 – 17 March 2020, and “CIRO Project: infrastructures and scientific instrumentation” devoted to the CEINGE-Advanced Biotechnologies at the University of Naples “Federico II”, and by an unrestricted grant from Kraft Heinz Italia SpA, Latina, Italy, an affiliate of The Kraft Heinz Company, co-headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA and Chicago, IL, USA. However, Regione Campania and Kraft Heinz Company had no influence on: (1) the study design; (2) the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; (3) the writing of the manuscript; and (4) the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.We thank Prof. Caterina Missero, supervisor of the Advanced Light Microscopy (ALM) Facility at CEINGE-Advanced Biotechnologies, University of Naples “Federico II”, for the support during the immunofluorescence analyses.The paper is dedicated to all patients who died because COVID-19 at our Center during this pandemic. Lorella Paparo: Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing - review & editing. Cristina Bruno: Methodology, Software, Supervision. Veronica Ferrucci: Investigation, Supervision,Validation. Erika Punzo: Investigation, Methodology, Validation. Maurizio Viscardi: Investigation, Methodology, Validation. Pellegrino Cerino: Investigation, Methodology, Validation. Alessia Romano: Formal analysis, Software, Investigation, Validation. Massimo Zollo: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing - review & editing. Roberto Berni Canani: Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Supervision, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing - review & editing."