Pires, Natália Albino https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8906-3336
dos Santos, Pedro Machado https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1179-3096
Doménech, Sara https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1993-4052
Nebot, Àngela https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4621-8262
Mugica, Francisco https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2843-0427
Bendahmane, Anass Benali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0455-5842
Porta, Xènia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4229-8071
Funding for this research was provided by:
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
Article History
Received: 15 October 2024
Accepted: 28 May 2026
First Online: 8 June 2026
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the Decla-ration of Helsinki, and approved by the Ethics Committee of Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (protocol code Ref 104_CEIPC_2020, date of approval 26/11/2020); by the Ethics Committee of Animal and Human Experimentation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (protocol code 5380 and date of approval 05/01/2021) and by the Ethics Committee of Polytechnic University of Catalonia (protocol code 2021.05 and date of approval 25/2/2021).
: Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.