Garcia Pindado, Júlia (Date of defense: 2017-05-12)
The present thesis is based on the development and optimization of a solid-phase strategy to prepare biaryl bicyclic pentapeptides. Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions were used to obtain the biaryl ...
Tapia Pérez, Lucía (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
This PhD thesis lays on the field of supramolecular chemistry. In this field, there is a huge interest in the development of cage-like compounds able to bind biologically relevant molecules inside their ...
Martín-Gago, Pablo (Date of defense: 2013-10-11)
Somatostatin, a peptidic hormone also known as somatotropin release-inhibiting factor (SRIF), is implicated in multiple biological functions, mediated by direct interaction of the peptide with a family ...
Díaz Perlas, Cristina (Date of defense: 2018-03-07)
Peptides play a critical role in human physiology and harbour a huge potential as therapeutic agents. In this thesis, new peptides have been discovered as ligands for the epidermal growth factor (EGF) ...
Fernández-Llamazares Onrubia, Ana Iris (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
Backbone N-methylation is becoming an increasingly important tool in peptide drug design, and has been widely used to optimize the activity and selectivity of peptide ligands as a result of conformational ...
Vilaprinyó Pascual, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2015-07-27)
Amyloid-beta protein (Aß) is strongly linked to the aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Even though Aß has a central role in AD, this protein is normally produced in healthy humans. It is the aberrant ...
Góngora Benítez, Miriam (Date of defense: 2013-02-08)
Synthesis of Cys-containing peptides has long been posed as an attractive challenge for peptide chemist. Protecting groups for the nucleophilic beta-thiol group of Cys residues must be stable during ...
Oller Salvia, Benjamí (Date of defense: 2015-05-18)
Brain delivery is a major unmet challenge because most drugs cannot cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Despite the restrictive nature of this barrier, brain vasculature reaches essentially every neural ...
Elduque Busquets, Xavier (Date of defense: 2014-09-05)
This work is divided in 2 different parts: Part A: Cyclization and conjugation can confer on biomolecules better activity, resistance toward enzymatic degradation and better internalization ...
Mas Moruno, Carlos (Date of defense: 2009-03-05)
La sepsis es un síndrome muy complejo de definir, diagnosticar y tratar. La patología de la sepsis se deriva de una respuesta perjudicial del organismo a una infección. La exposición a endotoxinas ...