Santos Bravo, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-10-06)
[eng] The main objectives of this thesis are to study the opportunistic infection caused by human cytomegalovirus and SARS-CoV-2 inquiring persistent infection and antiviral resistance. These major ...
Solé Font, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
Current therapy against colorectal cancer (CRC) is based on DNA-damaging agents that eradicate highly proliferative malignant cells. Whether sublethal chemotherapy affects tumour cell behaviour and ...
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 ...
Zamani Mozafarabadi, AmirPasha (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
[eng] Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is the most frequent antibody-mediated encephalitis known to date, in which patients develop specific antibodies directed against the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) ...
Profitós Pelejà, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)
ZEB1 and ZEB2 are two transcription factors best known for their role driving a dedifferentiation process, commonly referred as epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). This process is carried out ...
Alba Rovira, Roser (Date of defense: 2022-03-15)
Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated disease affecting large and medium sized arteries. Its pathophysiology is not fully understood and its present treatment relies on glucocorticoids, which ...
Barbero Castillo, Almudena (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
Throughout various brain states, billions of neurons interact resulting in a variety of cortical rhythms accompanied by switches between behavioral states (Gervasoni et al., 2004). As a result ...
Gallizioli, Mattia (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)
Cerebral ischaemia induces several inflammatory processes in the brain. Among them, the infiltration of immune cells is a hallmark of the pathology. Dendritic cells (DCs) are usually present in low ...
Camassa, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Understanding the dynamics of the brain that gives rise to conscious experience and that underscore the transition through different brain states is one of the central problems of today’s neuroscience. ...
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)