Aerts, Céline (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified over 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), affecting 1.5 billion people worldwide (Uniting to combat neglected tropical diseases, 2017). While being ...
Pickford, Anastasia Katherine (Date of defense: 2021-11-19)
Malaria is a vector-borne disease transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes and caused by Plasmodium parasites. The deadliest species, Plasmodium falciparum, is responsible for over 200 million cases ...
Safreed Harmon, Kelly (Date of defense: 2022-03-09)
INTRODUCTION: Almost 38 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2020, 73% of whom were estimated to be receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). The face of HIV has changed greatly since the ...
Torrens Fontanals, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
[eng] 1. HYPOTHESES. Primary liver cancer is the sixth most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide2,3. Around 90% of cases correspond to hepatocellular ...
Tintó Font, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)
Malaria disease is caused by protozoan Plasmodium sp. parasites. Among the species of Plasmodium that produce infection in humans, P. falciparum is the responsible for the majority of cases and deaths ...
Catalán García, Marc (Date of defense: 2017-03-20)
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) is the most common myopathy in elderly. This disease causes muscle wasting with both distal and proximal affectation. Quadriceps and finger flexors are muscle ...
Meneghini, Maria Antonia Emilia (Date of defense: 2021-10-21)
INTRODUCTION: The presence of a donor-specific alloimmune response negatively impacts allograft outcomes, being associated to risk of rejection and premature graft loss. Alloimmunity can be both preformed ...
Lopez Marco, Ana (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)
Aortic stenosis is the commonest valve disorder in the Western World. The natural history of the disease is very well described; with a decreased survival once symptoms occur. There is currently, no ...
Rofes Terrón, Paula (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
The overarching aim of the present thesis project is to implement new testing strategies and develop new tools that will contribute to improve the genetic diagnosis of hereditary cancer, with the ultimate ...
Velasco de Andrés, María (Date of defense: 2020-02-05)
CD5 is a scavenger receptor mainly expressed on lymphoid (T and B1a) cells but also on some minor myeloid (Mϕ and DCs) cell subsets. It is long known to negatively modulate differentiation and activation ...
616 - Pathology. Clinical medicine (27)
616.8 - Neurology. Neuropathology. Nervous system (23)
577 - Material bases of life. Biochemistry. Molecular biology. Biophysics (13)
616.9 - Communicable diseases. Infectious and contagious diseases, fevers (9)
616.1 - Pathology of the circulatory system, blood vessels. Cardiovascular complaints (8)