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Funció serotoninèrgica i resposta terapèutica en pacients amb esquizofrènia: la corba plasmàtica de prolactina mitjançant estimulació amb m-clorofenilpiperacina

Salvà Coll, Joan (Date of defense: 2006-09-26)

En aquesta tesi s'intentarà contrastar la hipòtesi de què la resposta clínica a un antipsicòtic antagonista dopamina-serotonina està relacionada amb una alteració de la funció serotoninèrgica a nivell cerebral.<br/><br/>Per ...

Función de la fosfatasa de fosfolípidos 3 (LPP3) en las etapas tempranas de la vía secretora

Gutiérrez Martínez, Enric (Date of defense: 2013-10-29)

El complejo de Golgi participa en el procesamiento, la distribución y el transporte de lípidos y proteínas hacia su destino final dentro de la célula. El transporte desde el Golgi está mediado por intermediarios de transporte ...

Función de las metalotioneínas en la patogenia de la encefalomielitis autoinmune experimental y de la esclerosis múltiple. Implicaciones terapéuticas

Espejo Ruiz, Carmen (Date of defense: 2005-11-29)

La esclerosis múltiple (EM) es una enfermedad crónica, inflamatoria y desmielinizante del sistema nervioso central (SNC) siendo la principal causa de discapacidad en adultos jóvenes después de los traumatismos. Su prevalencia ...

Función de las sustancias antioxidantes sobre esmalte blanqueado con peróxido de hidrógeno ante la adhesión inmediata de composites y sus cambios estructurales y morfológicos superficiales

Villarreal Becerra, Einer Niels (Date of defense: 2005-07-14)

OBJETIVOS: <br/><br/>Determinación del grado de adhesión inmediata de resinas compuestas a esmalte blanqueado y sus características estructurales y morfológicas superficiales con y sin aplicación de sustancias antioxidan ...

Función de netirna-1 y semaforinas secretables en la guía neuronal y axonal en el hipocampo y el cerebelo

Guijarro Larraz, Patricia (Date of defense: 2006-06-30)

Los factores guía son proteínas esenciales en el proceso de guía de neuronas y axones que ocurre durante el desarrollo del sistema nervioso. Netrinas y Semaforinas componen dos de las cinco familias de factores guía ...

Función del Represor Capicua en la Interpretación de Señales RTK-Ras-MAPK en "Drosophila"

Ajuria Astobiza, Leiore (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)

Las señales receptor tirosina kinasa (RTK) controlan un amplio abanico de decisiones durante el desarrollo de un animal, como la proliferación celular, diferenciación, morfogénesis y supervivencia. Muchas de estas señales ...

Función Muscular Periférica y Entrenamiento Físico en la Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica. Relaciones entre estado Redox, inflamación y respiración mitocondrial.

Rabinovich Spinelli, Roberto Alejandro (Date of defense: 2005-09-28)

La intolerancia al ejercicio que sufren los pacientes con EPOC se debe no solo a factores pulmonares sino a la disfunción de músculos periféricos presente en este grupo de pacientes que se engloba dentro de los denominados ...

Function and brain structure in aging with and without cognitive impairment

Solé Padullés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2007-11-09)

L'interès general d'aquest projecte de tesi doctoral es centra en l'estudi dels patrons d'activació cerebral subjacents a l'envelliment cognitiu, tant en condicions clíniques normals com patològiques (Alteració cognitiva ...

Function and Operator Theory on Large Bergman spaces

Arroussi, Hicham (Date of defense: 2016-05-06)

The theory of Bergman spaces has been a central subject of study in complex analysis during the past decades. The book [7] by S. Bergman contains the first systematic treat-ment of the Hilbert space of square integrable ...

Function and Regulation of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7 (BMP7) in Cerebral Cortex Development

Ortega Cano, Juan Alberto (Date of defense: 2011-09-30)

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a chemokine which levels are regulated by neuronal activity and could act as a sensor in front of distinct physiologic stimulus, activating the transcription of specific group ...

Function of the histone demethylase PHF8 in neural progenitor cells and glial differentiation

Iacobucci, Simona (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)

Taking into consideration the current knowledge about the subjects treated, several goals were proposed for this PhD thesis in order to further understand PHF8 function in both astrocytes and neural stem cells biology. To ...

Functional analyses of candidate genes for osteoporosis : RUNX2 and LRP5 interplay during differentiation of the hFOB human osteoblast cell line

Gholami, Behjat (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)

Osteoporosis is a general skeletal disorder. It is characterized by a low bone mass and a microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, which increase bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. LRP5 is a widely ...

Functional analysis of a phloem cysteine protease in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pitsili, Eugenia (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)

Metacaspases are a family of cysteine proteases found in lower eukaryotes and plants. They are considered to be distant relatives of caspases, present only in animals. The role of metacaspases is quite diverse, from ...

Functional analysis of EXD2 in mitochondrial homeostasis

Faria da Silva, Joana Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)

One of the most fundamental events in the history of life is the origin of mitochondria. It was firstly proposed by Ivan Wallin, and later popularized by Lynn Margulis, as part of the endosymbiotic theory, that mitochondria ...

Functional analysis of variant proteins in Plasmodium vivax: Implications in pathology

Bernabeu Aznar, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)

P. vivax is the most widespread malaria, it accounts for 25-40% of the global disease burden and it is estimated that causes from 132 to 391 million clinical cases each year. It is amply accepted that P. vivax do not ...

Functional and molecular characterization of maize open stomata 1 protein kinase

Vilela, Belmiro (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)

Plant growth and productivity are compromised by environmental stresses such as pathogens, extreme temperatures, drought and high salinity. Being sessile organisms, plants had to develop different physiologic and biochemical ...

Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Implications for a Systematic Conservation Planning

Siqueira Campos, Felipe (Date of defense: 2018-06-18)

Biodiversity patterns are results of ecological and evolutionary processes. Understanding the forces shaping biodiversity patterns help to predict the responses of ecosystems to environmental change. Considering the role ...

Functional characterization of AWR affector proteins from the phytopathogen "R. solanacearum" (Caracterització funcional de les proteïnes efectores AWR del fitopatogen "R. solanacearum")

Solé Castellví, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)

"R. solanacearum" is a devastating bacterial pathogen that infects "Solanaceae" spp. such as tomato, eggplant or banana. A functional T3SS is required for virulence and more than 70 putative effectors have been described, ...

Functional characterization of single amino acid variants

López Ferrando, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-12-11)

Single amino acid variants (SAVs) are one of the main causes of Mendelian disorders, and play an important role in the development of many complex diseases. At the same time, they are the most common kind of variation ...

Functional connectivity at multiple scales: From neuronal cultures to human brain

Montalà Flaquer, Marc (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)

[eng] One of the greatest challenges in the field of neuroscience is to obtain an accurate functional description of the brain that allows us to understand the functioning of higher complexity cognitive processes such ...