Pires Coelho, Maria
Agostinho, Daniel
Sousa, Teresa
Pires, Gabriel
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UI/BD/154279/2022 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UI/BD/154279/2022))
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2021.01469.CEECIND (https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.01469.CEECIND/CP1656/CT0017))
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UID/04950B/2020 & 2025, UID/04950P/2020 & 2025)
Article History
Received: 23 August 2025
Accepted: 29 December 2025
First Online: 10 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved (or granted exemption) by the Ethics committee (including the name of the ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
: All participants consented to participate and signed the informed consent approved by the Ethics Committee.
: Data or materials for the experiments reported here are available upon reasonable request. None of the experiments were preregistered.