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Lantero Escolar, Elena (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
La malaria es una enfermedad infecciosa producida por Plasmodium, protozoo transmitido a través de la picadura de mosquitos del género Anopheles. Aunque existen tratamientos y medidas de prevención, en los países tropicales ...
Miñarro Lleonar, Marina (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
[eng] Advances in structural and molecular biology have favoured the rational development of novel drugs thru structure-based drug design (SBDD). Particularly, computational tools have proven to be rapid and efficient tools ...
Zimmermann, Fabian (Date of defense: 2021-11-24)
The microtubule nucleator γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC) is essential for the function of microtubule organizing centers such as the centrosome. Since its discovery over two decades ago, γTuRC has evaded in vitro reconstitution ...
Jiménez Flores, Lizbeth Minerva (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western World and accounts for over 700,000 deaths every year worldwide. The prognosis is dismal, with an average 5-year survival rate of less than 20%, ...
Morcelle Magaña, Carmen (Date of defense: 2017-09-19)
In most human cancers, the c-Myc transcription factor is deregulated and/or its levels are elevated, particularly in colorectal cancer (CRC). Earlier studies suggested a direct relationship between ribosome biogenesis and ...
Villamor Payà, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-07-08)
The Tousled like kinases 1 and 2 (TLK1 and TLK2) are evolutionarily conserved Ser/Thr kinases that are required for genome stability and normal development in numerous organisms. Both kinases contribute to histone deposition ...
Meler Marquina, Ainara (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
[eng] Proper B cell identity demands a tight controlled genomic and epigenomic landscape at each stage of cellular differentiation during B lymphocyte development. It has been previously identified in our group that HDAC7 ...
Zamora Ramírez, William J. (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)
Lipophilicity is a key physicochemical descriptor used to understand the biological profile of (bio)organic compounds, xenobiotics and a broad variety of biochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological processes. This ...
Altay, Gizem (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
Intestinal epithelium is highly specialized tissue organized into crypt-villus units relevant for their effective barrier function and nutrient absorption. In the crypt units reside the proliferative intestinal stem cells ...
Șandor, Alexandra Georgiana (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
In this PhD thesis we have demonstrated that tris(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium(II) dichloride (RuCl2(PPh3)3) is a potent and versatile catalyst capable of achieving efficient different chemical transformations under microwave ...
Gómez González, Soledad (Date of defense: 2017-09-21)
Evidencias recientes han mostrado que los tumores sólidos pediátricos, incluidos el neuroblastoma y el meduloblastoma, albergan una baja cantidad de mutaciones genéticas recurrentes, pero presentan una proporción significativa ...
Cejalvo Andújar, Juan Miguel (Date of defense: 2020-01-22)
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women and it represents the most common cause of cancer-‐related death in women worldwide1. Advances in early detection, prevention, risk stratification, and therapeutic ...
Fructuoso Castellar, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Obesity prevalence is higher in Down syndrome (DS) than in the general population. Beyond metabolic alterations, individuals with DS present increased impulsivity, a trait observed in obese people and in compulsive eaters ...
Arqué Roca, Francesc Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-01-24)
[eng] Enzyme-powered motors are based on the micro- and nanosized particles that propel thanks to the chemical conversion of enzymes attached on their surface. Recently, these tiny devices have been applied for a plethora ...
Gutiérrez García, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)
In plants, the sterol biosynthetic pathway leads to the production of a complex mixture of end-products, among which β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, and cholesterol are the most abundant ones. Stigmasterol, the ...
Llamas Pámanes, Ernesto (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
Chloroplasts provide plants with metabolic pathways that are unique among eu- karoytes, including the methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway (MEP) for the pro- duction of isoprenoids essential for photosynthesis and plant ...
Coll Iglesias, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-11-23)
[eng] Endometrial cancer represents the most common cancer arising from the uterine cavity and there is little hope for patients with recurrent or metastatic disease. Prior studies of our group reported autophagy pathway ...
Fernández Arévalo, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)
[spa] Las leishmaniosis son enfermedades causadas por el género Leishmania. Mientras que la clínica visceral se asocia al complejo L. donovani, la clínica tegumentaria puede estar producida por cualquier especie que afecte ...
Viñas Bastart, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[cat] L’augment del consum d’analgèsics en general i d’opioides en particular és una qüestió que preocupa especialment en els països industrialitzats. L’origen del canvi en el patró de prescripció i ús d’aquests medicaments ...
Varona Sánchez, Elisa (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)
La correcta formulación de piensos es esencial para conseguir dietas que aporten al animal niveles equilibrados de nutrientes, a la vez que se consiga una eficiencia en la producción animal mediante piensos con palatabilidad ...