Barbero Castillo, Almudena (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
Throughout various brain states, billions of neurons interact resulting in a variety of cortical rhythms accompanied by switches between behavioral states (Gervasoni et al., 2004). As a result ...
Gallizioli, Mattia (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)
Cerebral ischaemia induces several inflammatory processes in the brain. Among them, the infiltration of immune cells is a hallmark of the pathology. Dendritic cells (DCs) are usually present in low ...
Castro i Català, Marta de (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Schizophrenia is a severe and complex mental disorder that results in an inability to cope with life’s ordinary demands and routines. Normally, it appears in late adolescence, more frequently and ...
Ballester Plané, Júlia (Date of defense: 2018-10-18)
The term cerebral palsy (CP) encompasses a group of disorders of movement and/or posture and of motor function due to a non-progressive injury, interference or abnormality in an immature or developing ...
Martínez Prat, Berta (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)
[eng] One of the most striking phenomena of active fluids, i.e., fluids composed of self-propelled constituents, is the emergence of chaotic spatiotemporal flows. "This regime, reminiscent of inertial ...
Crispi Brillas, Fàtima (Date of defense: 2009-09-03)
BACKGROUND<br/><br/>Fetal growth restriction (FGR), with a prevalence of 5-10% in newborns, is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality in adulthood, but the pathophysiological links of this ...
Ortiz Barahona, Vanessa (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)
The general aim of this thesis is to identify and characterize if there are DNA methylation patterns giving rise to cancer-related m5C RNA modification defects, potentially promoting malignant transformation ...
Theofanopoulou, Constantina (Date of defense: 2019-03-21)
In my thesis I investigate the evolution of human sociality and its possible role for providing a scaffold to the evolution of language. My approach is multidisciplinary and includes studies ranging ...
Archila Diaz, Luis Diego (Date of defense: 2015-07-13)
Allergies are emerging as a major public health concern in the westernized world as they are increasing for reasons that remain poorly understood. Allergies involving polysensitization and multiple organ ...
Roura Frigolé, Helena (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)
Adenosine deaminase acting on transfer RNA (ADAT) is a human heterodimeric enzyme that catalyzes the deamination of adenosine (A) to inosine (I) at the first position of the anticodon of transfer RNAs ...