Ospina Álvarez, Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-06-27)
This doctoral thesis deals with the biogeochemical processes taking place in estuarine systems known as 'rias', located at the NW of the Iberian Peninsula. Its realization has been possible thanks to ...
Rey Carrizo, Matías (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
Influenza is a major health problem worldwide, as the periodic pandemics of the 20th century have highlighted. Some countermeasures have been developed and have indeed diminish the devastating effects ...
León Moreno, Theresa Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2013-10-30)
Nuclear receptor LXR is a ligand dependent transcription factor. The activating ligands of LXR are specific oxidized forms of cholesterol (oxysterols) and intermediate products of the cholesterol ...
Mathbout, Shifa (Date of defense: 2016-02-17)
As precipitation is a very important parameter of climate and hydrology, exploring spatial and temporal distribution and variation of this variable can give an idea about climate conditions and water ...
Pascal i Capdevila, Mariona (Date of defense: 2012-02-24)
Currently food allergy diagnostic tests are not able to predict clinical reactivity in sensitized patients (those with specific IgE against a particular allergen). Traditionally, allergy diagnostic tests ...
Martínez Gutiérrez, Alfredo (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
One of the main causal factors of skin aging is ultraviolet radiation as part of sun exposure. This radiation induces many changes at the molecular level that alter the proper function of skin biological ...
Taboada Moreno, Sergio (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
Esta tesis cubre diferentes aspectos de los invertebrados marinos bentónicos de la Antártida. Se trata de una tesis multidisciplinar presentada en formato artículos en la que se hacen las siguientes ...
Climent Biescas, Claudia (Date of defense: 2017-07-07)
In this thesis, different organic and organometallic molecules with interest for optoelectronic applications have been studied from a computational standpoint. The work presented in this thesis belongs ...
Lorente Crivillé, Adriana (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
Natural products from terrestrial plants and microorganisms have long been a traditional source of drugs. For centuries humans have been looking on their environment for medicines to treat illnesses. ...
Jimenez Villarin, Javier (Date of defense: 2017-06-08)
In the past 50 years there has been increasing interest and concern over pharmaceutical drugs and their presence in the environment, since they and/or their metabolites could induce toxicological effects ...