Publications by authors named "D Riva"
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- * By September 2023, 17 countries in the Americas had reported cases of H5N1, with Argentina confirming its first case in wild birds in February 2023, which later affected local poultry and sea lions.
- * Epidemiological data indicate the avian virus likely entered Argentina multiple times, primarily through migratory birds, making ongoing surveillance and preparedness essential for public health safety.
Background: Visuo-spatial and visuo-perceptual functioning is widely studied in preterm child and is strongly sex-specific. However, little to no data is available regarding male-female differences in preterm children and adolescents and about the interaction effect between sex and preterm birth.
Methods: We studied 30 adolescents born preterm with normal cognitive and clinical neurological outcomes and 34 age-matched controls to investigate the interaction between levels of prematurity and sex in predicting the outcome of visual pathways functioning and to explore the relation between psychophysiological perceptive processing and neuropsychological performance.
Background: There are few studies investigating patients' needs in healthcare focusing on disease severity and psychological characteristics of elderly heart failure (HF) patients with multimorbidity, specifically addressed by a care manager (CM).
Aims: To explore the role of a CM dealing with elderly multimorbid HF patients' needs/preferences according to NYHA class, ejection fraction, psychological/psychosomatic distress and quality of life (QoL), utilizing a Blended Collaborative Care (BCC) approach (ESCAPE; Grant agreement No 945377).
Methods: Cue cards, self-reported questionnaires, and a semi-structured interview were used to collect data.
D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH) catalyzes the NAD-dependent conversion of D-3-phospho-glycerate to 3-phosphohydroxypyruvate, the first step in the phosphorylated pathway for L-serine (L-Ser) biosynthesis. L-Ser plays different relevant metabolic roles in eukaryotic cells: alterations in L-Ser metabolism have been linked to serious neurological disorders. The human PHGDH (hPHGDH), showing a homotetrameric state in solution, is made of four domains, among which there are two regulatory domains at the C-terminus: the aspartate kinase-chorismate mutase-tyrA prephenate dehydrogenase (ACT) and allosteric substrate-binding (ASB) domains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Neurophysiological studies recognized that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with altered patterns of over- and under-connectivity. However, little is known about network organization in children with ASD in the early phases of development and its correlation with the severity of core autistic features.
Methods: The present study aimed at investigating the association between brain connectivity derived from MEG signals and severity of ASD traits measured with different diagnostic clinical scales, in a sample of 16 children with ASD aged 2 to 6 years.