Kukhtar Kukhtar, Dmytro (Date of defense: 2021-06-18)
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a rare, heterogenic, and hereditary disease that produces gradual loss of the visual field and can cause blindness. Mutations causing RP are still unknown in about 50% of ...
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 ...
Pla Codina, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
This Ph.D. Thesis is structured on two projects aiming to improve the intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) perinatal survival and brain development with new more accurate tools for continuous fetal ...
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 ...
Moreno Cabrera, José Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
This PhD thesis has been carried out with the aim of improving, from a bioinformatic-based approach, the genetic diagnostics of hereditary cancer. More specifically, the aims were: 1. To perform a ...
Alonso Galindo, Selena (Date of defense: 2021-06-10)
Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of mortality in newborns born in Mozambique. Transplacental transfer of antibodies is essential for conferring protection during the first months of life ...
Salvadó Blasco, Gemma (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. This disease, however, starts decades before any clinical symptom appears with the accumulation in the brain of aggregates of two ...
Portell Buj, Elena (Date of defense: 2021-03-16)
[eng] The high-level of antibiotic resistance, the ability to form biofilm as well as the emergence of nontuberculous mycobacteria-lung disease (NTM-LD) by Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex ...
Jullien, Sophie (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
[eng] The general objective of this thesis was to describe the epidemiology, aetiology, clinical presentation, and radiological findings of pneumonia among Bhutanese children to better characterize ...