López Asamar, Abraham (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) is an 81-KDa bidomain enzyme which hydrolyses short proline-containing peptides. This enzyme is involved in mnemonic and cognitive processes, and the dysregulation of POP ...
Paradís Bas, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-05-15)
The known as "difficult peptides", as well as those sequences that aggregate in solution, are some of those molecules with high applicability as nanomaterials or even in medicine field. This thesis has ...
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 ...
Romo Fernández, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
In this Doctoral Thesis a new stereoselective Ni(II)–mediated catalytic system for the SN1–like addition of chiral Nacyl thiazolidinethiones to electrophiles able to deliver cationic species under ...
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 ...
Le Roux, Anabel-Lise (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)
c-Src is the leading member of the Src family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases, which are involved in many signaling pathways. Its deregulation affects cell migration, proliferation and survival. c-Src ...