Universitat de Barcelona
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[eng] INTRODUCTION: Papua New Guinea (PNG) has the highest malaria transmission rates in the Pacific region. The Lihir Islands of PNG comprise the islands of Aniolam, where a gold mine is located, Masahet, Mahur and ...
[eng] The composition and architecture of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and their dynamic alterations, play an essential regulatory role in numerous cellular processes. Furthermore, structural, and biochemical properties ...
Despite the advances in the identification of genes and proteins involved in Parkinson’s disease (PD), there are still appreciable gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the chronic neurodegenerative process ...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable, chronically progressive disorder of old age leading to premature invalidity and death. Clinically, PD is characterized by classical motor syndrome linked to a progressive loss of ...
Genetically tractable models such as Drosophila melanogaster may help to identify new approaches to halt malignant growth. During my doctoral thesis, I performed a screen to find mitochondrial genes required for the growth ...
The aim of this dissertation is to advance our knowledge of Cypro-Minoan, a group of undeciphered syllabic inscriptions dated roughly to the 16th or 15th through the 11th centuries BCE and found mostly on Cyprus, with small ...
Malaria is an infectious disease that affects nearly half of the population in 90 countries around the world. In 2017 it was estimated that there were 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths disproportionately distributed ...
The interaction between a membrane protein and its surrounding phospholipids is thought to be crucial for the correct folding and function of the protein. This thesis is focused on the investigation of the interplay between ...
Optical Tweezers (OT) are a light-based non-invasive tool that has played an important role during the last decades in the field of biophotonics, together with the advances in optical microscopy techniques. Optical trapping ...
[eng] INTRODUCTION: Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is the leading cause of cirrhosis in the world and the leading cause of death from liver disease in Europe. Alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) is a severe form of MHA; ...
[eng] BACKGROUND: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a neuronal antibody-mediated disease that associates with prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms and predominantly affects women of childbearing ...
This memoir is divided into two parts, devoted to two topics in (ab-stract) algebraic logic. In the first part we develop a hierarchy in which propositional logics “L” are classified according to the definability conditions ...
This thesis is an investigation into the visualization of cosmological propositions associated with string theory. Research into the work of contemporary theoretical physics led to the question, how does one visualize what ...
[emg] Alternative splicing (AS) is a gene expression regulatory mechanism that enables generation of multiple mRNA isoforms from a single gene which commonly are translated into proteins. This mechanism is tightly regulated ...
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, psychiatric, and cognitive manifestations. The disease is caused by an unstable expansion of the CAG trinucleotide ...
Environmental constraints and developmental processes in plants can lead to light energy excess in chloroplasts by lowering the threshold at which light becomes saturating by a lack of electron acceptors in the light-processing ...
The main topic of this Thesis is to investigate the contribution of polyamines to defense in Arabidopsis thaliana and the requirement of callose deposition for full expression of effector-triggered immunity in autoimmune ...
[eng] Polyamines are small polycationic molecules that contain amino groups and are found in all living organisms. This study is aimed at acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the diverse roles of polyamines in plants, ...
Heterotrimeric G proteins are masters regulators of cell homeostasis. They coordinate the signaling between G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their intracellular effectors. Heterotrimeric G proteins are composed of ...
The goal of this dissertation is the study and characterisation of high dose Carbon (C) implantation processes into Silicon (Si) and related materials for the synthesis of Silicon Carbide (SiC). The attainment of ...
