1. From the Department of General and Clinical Pathology (C.N., O.P., F.d.N., V.S.), Excellence Research Center on Cardiovascular Disease, II University of Naples, Naples, Italy; the Department of Pharmacology (F.d.N.), University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy; and the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute and Evans Department of Medicine (C.N.), Boston University, Boston, Mass.