Bassani, Nicklas (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
Antiangiogenic drugs are used clinically for treatment of different types of cancers and in the case of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are now standard first-line treatments (Rini, 2009). Nevertheless, these ...
Nicolàs Pàrraga, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
Low risk Human Papillomaviruses (LR-HPVs) 6 and 11 are the main causative agents of benign proliferative lesions such genital warts (GWs) and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) (Aubin et al. ...
Riera-Punet, Nina (Date of defense: 2019-03-01)
INTRODUCTION: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by progressive degeneration of the lower (LMN) and upper motor neurons (UMN) in the spinal cord and brain, ...
Vidal Crespo, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-04-28)
In this thesis we have focused on two novel therapeutic strategies that target the crosstalk between the tumor cells and the microenvironment. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains an incurable ...
López Solá, Marina (Date of defense: 2010-07-20)
The PhD thesis aimed to characterize the dynamic or temporal dimension of the emotional experience assessed using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Brain response to primary emotional stimuli ...
Pérez Salvia, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2019-03-01)
Cancer is considered nowadays a genetic and epigenetic disease. Aberrancies in epigenetic marks in DNA and histone tails together with alterations in epigenetic regulators responsible of catalyzing ...
Celià Terrassa, Antoni (Date of defense: 2012-05-14)
This Doctoral Thesis project is part of a broader research program whose global aim is to better understand key molecular and cellular events in tumor metastasis, in particular those associated with ...
Casal Domínguez, María (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Inflammatory myopathy (IM) is a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by muscle weakness and inflammatory infiltrates on the muscle biopsy. But muscle involvement is not always present and other ...
López Solà, Clara (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
There is an incomplete understanding of the heritability and the specific genetic bases of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It has a complex multifactorial etiology comprising both biological as ...
Moreno Monasterio, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-02-18)
The main goal of this PhD thesis was to understand the mechanisms underlying GBM tumor formation and progression, with a special emphasis on the study of factors that have a role in normal NSC biology, ...