Universidad Católica de Murcia

Transdisciplinary Enactive Realism: Towards an Ontology of the Leib and Epistemic Translation in the Sociosanitary Ecosystem

Background: The historical fracture between biomedical positivism and social constructivism has perpetuated an epistemic schizophrenia, reducing the human body either to a molecular machine (Körper) or to a discursive epiphenomenon, thus obscuring the structural roots of illness....

From immersive observation to procedural performance: a cluster randomized trial of training in catheterization procedures among nursing students

Abstract Background Immersive 360° video provides consistent demonstrations of clinical procedures. We compared an immersive-video program with conventional simulation, each followed by a common hands-on seminar. Methods Thirty-two teaching subgroups were randomized 1:1. Of 443 c...

STELLAR: A Fragment-Based Docking Workflow for Highly Flexible Long-Chain Biopolymers

Abstract Docking methods have improved significantly through optimization using generative approaches and systematic exploration of parameter configurations within docking software. However, docking large molecules such as peptides remains challenging, while the docking of large...

Biomimetic recombinant humanized type III collagen peptide-RGD loaded alginate hydrogels enhance proliferation of mesenchymal-lineage cells via Integrin α5β1 activation

Alginate hydrogels (HG) are widely utilized in tissue engineering due to their biocompatibility and tunable physical properties, however, their bio-inert nature limits direct cellular interactions. Moreover, the receptor-level interactions of recombinant humanized type-III collag...

Targeting Ferroptosis, Pyroptosis, and NRF2 Signaling with Dietary Polyphenols in Diabetic Microvascular Complications: An Integrative Review

Diabetic retinopathy, diabetic kidney disease, and diabetic peripheral neuropathy remain major causes of visual loss, kidney failure, pain, disability, and reduced quality of life despite improvements in glycemic and cardiovascular risk management. Oxidative stress, mitochondrial...

Freshness flavour perception via quantum-inspired and quantum ligand-based virtual screening

Abstract Flavour perception is a complex and critical biological process in the food industry in general and in beer production in particular. Taste is influenced by the simultaneous interaction of a large number of molecules present in food and beverages with specific receptors...

Orthorexia Nervosa Risk and Psychological Correlates in Higher-Education Dance Students

BACKGROUND: Orthorexia nervosa has been increasingly examined in performance-oriented populations; however, evidence in higher-education dance students remains limited, particularly across multiple dance disciplines and with integrated psychological assessment. OBJECTIVE: To exam...

MassCas tabletop game as a training tool in mass casualty incidents for undergraduate medical students: a quasi-experimental study with knowledge assessment at 6-month follow-up

Mass casualty incidents (MCI) require a coordinated prehospital response from multiple healthcare teams. Undergraduate medical students rarely receive systematic MCI training, and some of the methods that have shown good results so far, full-scale simulations and extended reality...