Frías Hernández, Àlex (Date of defense: 2015-12-10)
Notch activation in aortic endothelial cells (ECs) takes place at embryonic stages during cardiac valve formation and induces an endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT). Using aortic ECs, we show ...
Vilahur Chiaraviglio, Nadia (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
The prenatal period is a stage of special sensitivity to the adverse effects of environmental agents for the developing fetus. The human placenta is an organ that, in the interface between mother and ...
Lesnicar-Pucko, Gaja (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
In this work we use a novel in vivo imaging technique and cell behaviour analysis to investigate the cellular basis of limb bud elongation. Recently, it has become clear that oriented cell activities ...
Gallastegui Calvache, Edurne (Date of defense: 2010-06-18)
El establecimiento de un reservorio latente del virus del HIV en células T CD4+ es la mayor barrera contra la erradicación de esta enfermedad. Para lograr su erradicación, se necesitaría combinar la ...
Picón Pagès, Pol (Date of defense: 2022-09-09)
Society increase in live expectancy will cause a rise in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis, thus, there is a need to further understand how it works. One of the main culprits of this disease amyloid-β ...
Bassaganyas-Bars, Toni (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Aquesta tesi investiga la interpretació de les frases amb el verb have en anglès. Aquest verb ha generat una gran quantitat de literatura en tots els àmbits de la lingüística, sense que s'hagi arribat ...
Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate students’ and teachers’ incentive programs, and the intergenerational infant health consequences of a labor market policy. In the first ...
Boni, Jacopo (Date of defense: 2019-06-20)
DYRK (dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinases) is an evolutionary conserved family of protein kinases involved in the regulation of cellular processes, such as proliferation and survival, which play ...
Imbet Jiménez, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
This dissertation studies the role of uncertainty and information in financial markets, and its consequences for firms’ and investors’ capital allocation decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter ...
Durán Alcaide, Ángel (Date of defense: 2010-03-04)
The work of this thesis was focused on the development of high-performance algorithms for a new generation of molecular descriptors, with many advantages with respect to its predecessors, suitable for ...