Lexical retrieval difficulties in post-COVID-19 syndrome: Insights from verbal fluency and naming tasks.

Background: Although considerable research has been conducted on post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS), cognitive symptoms, particularly those related to language, are still not well understood.

Aims: To provide a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of language performance in PCS patients using a comprehensive set of semantic and verbal production tasks.

Methods & Procedures: The study involved 195 PCS patients aged 26-64 years and 50 healthy controls aged 25-61 years.

Access of migrant women to sexual and reproductive health services: A systematic review.

Background: The number of people living in a different place from their place of birth is increasing year by year. Although women have always been involved in migratory movements, today they are increasingly doing so independently. Women are migrating from the Global South to higher-income countries.

Cognitive impairment in young adults with post COVID-19 syndrome.

In this study, we aimed to examine different cognitive domains in a large sample of patients with post COVID-19 syndrome. Two hundred and fourteen patients, 85.04% women, ranged 26 to 64 years (mean = 47.

Reading fluency in Spanish patients with Parkinson's disease: A reading prosody examination.

Background: The expressiveness during reading is essential for a fluent reading. Reading prosody has been scarcely studied in an experimental manner, owing to the difficulties in taking objective and direct measures of this reading skill. However, new technologies development has made it possible to analyse reading prosody in an experimental way.

Altered Eating Attitudes in Nursing Home Residents and Its Relationship with their Cognitive and Nutritional Status.

Background: although eating disorders are usually linked to young adolescents, these mental disorders can also appear in the elderly, especially in those living in nursing homes, which might be associated or not with the cognitive decline; however, there are few data regarding elderly subjects.

Objectives: the objective of the present work was to evaluate the presence of abnormal eating attitudes in nursing home residents and its relation with several cognitive, nutritional and psychological factors that could be influencing their nutritional state.

Design And Setting: a observational experimental study was carried out at several nursing homes of Murcia, Spain.

Structural characterization of the Rabphilin-3A-SNAP25 interaction.

Membrane fusion is essential in a myriad of eukaryotic cell biological processes, including the synaptic transmission. Rabphilin-3A is a membrane trafficking protein involved in the calcium-dependent regulation of secretory vesicle exocytosis in neurons and neuroendocrine cells, but the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Here, we report the crystal structures and biochemical analyses of Rabphilin-3A C2B-SNAP25 and C2B-phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP) complexes, revealing how Rabphilin-3A C2 domains operate in cooperation with PIP/Ca and SNAP25 to bind the plasma membrane, adopting a conformation compatible to interact with the complete SNARE complex.

Lipase-mediated selective oxidation of furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural.

Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) are important biomass-derived platform chemicals that can be obtained from the dehydration of lignocellulosic sugars. A possible route for the derivatization of furanics is their oxidation to afford a broad range of chemicals with promising applications (e.g.

Lipase-catalyzed (trans)esterification of 5-hydroxy- methylfurfural and separation from HMF esters using deep-eutectic solvents.

5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is a valuable biomass-derived building block. Among possible HMF valorization products, a broad range of HMF esters can be synthesized. These HMF esters have found some promising applications, such as monomers, fuels, additives, surfactants, and fungicides, and thus several catalytic approaches for HMF (trans)esterifications have been reported.

Lipase-mediated oxidative delignification in non-aqueous media: formation of de-aromatized lignin-oil and cellulase-accessible polysaccharides.

Pulp & Oil: We report the unprecedented formation of de-aromatized lignin oil together with a white polysaccharide fraction when lignocellulose is treated with peracids, which are formed in situ by enzymes. A preliminary characterization of the lignin oil is provided, together with the evidence that the delignified lignocellulose is accessible to cellulases to afford fermentable sugars. As a first proof-of-concept, the reported approach may bring promising new research lines in the future.

Benzaldehyde lyase-catalyzed diastereoselective C-C bond formation by simultaneous carboligation and kinetic resolution.

Enzymes create chiral microenvironments that may simultaneously generate several stereogenic centers in the same catalytic cycle, broadening the possibilities of biocatalysis. Benzaldehyde lyase (BAL) affords highly diastereoselective α-hydroxy-ketones by simultaneously performing ligation and kinetic resolution of a racemic aldehyde. Thus, to the well-known enantioselective BAL-carboligation of aldehydes (C-C bond formation), another property, namely diastereoselectivity, is added in this paper for the first time.