Calderone, Vittorio (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Hepatic cirrhosis is a largely diffused pathology caused by alcohol abuse and hepatitis C in developed countries, whereas hepatitis B is the cause in most parts of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. It's ...
Martrus Zapater, Gloria (Date of defense: 2013-07-10)
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has a biased nucleotide composition different from human genes. This raises the question of how evolution has chosen the nucleotide sequence HIV-1 observed ...
Lanuza Masdeu, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-04-05)
Es va generar un ratolí transgènic amb la capacitat d'activar JNK específicament al pàncrees. Tot i que aquests ratolins no tenen cap afectació morfoestructural en els seus illots pancreàtics ni diferències ...
Malandrino, Maria Ida (Date of defense: 2013-10-04)
Current lifestyle with high-energy diets and little exercise is triggering an alarming growth in obesity. Excess of adiposity is leading to severe increase in associated pathologies, such as insulin ...
Ventura Ventanachs, Verònica (Date of defense: 2013-10-18)
Irosustat is a first-generation, irreversible, steroid sulfatase inhibitor currently in development for hormone-dependent cancer therapy. Its structure is a tricyclic coumarin-based sulfamate that ...
Rodríguez Banqueri, Arturo (Date of defense: 2013-03-14)
X-ray crystallography is, now at days, one of the most powerful techniques to study proteins at the atomic level. Unfortunately, obtaining high quality crystals of membrane proteins for x-ray diffraction ...