Chivite Araiz, Íñigo (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)
Blood vessels distribute nutrients and oxygen to every single cell in the body. Endothelial cells define the vessel wall, and thus they are ideally located to crucially modulate nutrient availability ...
Marín Llauradó, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2022-01-27)
GENERAL AIM: The general aim of this thesis is to understand how mechanical stress depends on pressure, size and shape in fluid-filled curved epithelial sheets. SPECIFIC AIMS: This general ...
Pell Vidal, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-11-19)
Obesity is reaching pandemic dimensions and is an established instigator of many diseases, such as non alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most prevalent liver disease worldwide. Most studies in this ...
Dubreuil Vall, Laura (Date of defense: 2020-10-28)
[eng] Executive function is defined as a subset of high-order cognitive functions (including working memory, inhibition, initiation and monitoring) that sustain adaptive goal-directed behavior and ...
Kobialka, Piotr (Date of defense: 2020-11-13)
[eng] Our knowledge on the molecular basis behind physiological angiogenesis has significantly expanded in the last two decades. This progress also led to improvement in understanding of many vascular-related ...
Alonso Martínez de Marañón, Josune (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
[spa] La terapia actual contra la mayoría de los cánceres está basada en el uso de agentes que dañan el ADN, como la quimioterapia o la radioterapia, que erradican las células tumorales proliferantes. ...
Ciscar García, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-10-03)
[spa] Durante el proyecto de tesis se han realizado dos proyectos: Por un lado, se ha investigado la biología de la vía de señalización de RANK en adenocarcinomas de mama humanos. Además, se han ...
Casadó Llombart, Sergi (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
The immune system comprises cellular and humoral components that protect the organism against external and internal aggressions, such as pathogens and cancer. Therefore, it can distinguish healthy, self ...
Acevedo Lipes, Andrea Milena (Date of defense: 2021-03-09)
Clinical pathologists identify visually many morphological features to characterize the different normal cells, as well as the abnormal cell types whose presence in peripheral blood is the evidence of ...
Quiroga Álvarez, Xarxa (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)
Five years ago, I started walking this path that now seems like an entire life. Although everyone around tried to explain how this would feel, none of their explanations could have match what it has ...