Rasti Zaghiyan, George (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
The Sirtuin family of NAD+-dependent enzymes plays a key role in the maintenance of genome integrity upon stress. Sirtuins coordinate the response to different forms of stress at different levels and ...
Torrens Fontanals, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
[eng] 1. HYPOTHESES. Primary liver cancer is the sixth most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide2,3. Around 90% of cases correspond to hepatocellular ...
Méndiz Manero, Mª Victoria (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
[eng] I have used the brain tumours that originate in Drosophila larvae upon depletion of the brain tumor (brat) gene as a model to study neoplastic malignant growth. I have used genetic analysis to ...
Glinkowska Mares, Adrianna (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
Two decades ago, microfluidic technology begun to make its appearance in the fields of drug delivery and biomedical engineering to irrevocably revolutionize them. It was quickly realized how microchannels ...
Moreta Moraleda, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-01-25)
The hypothesis of the present thesis is that the presence or absence of some chromatin factors may facilitate or impair the action of chemotherapeutic drugs in colorectal cancer (CRC). Chromatin factors ...
Ciria Suárez, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases in women. Prevention and treatments have lowered mortality; nevertheless, the impact of diagnosis and treatment continue to affect ...
Montero Martín, Sara (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
Despite the latest advances in early diagnosis and increased resources employed to develop new therapeutic options, effective control of cancer disease remains a challenge. In fact, cancer is the second ...
Arribas Hortigüela, Lorena (Date of defense: 2022-06-30)
The use of imaging techniques routinely used for diagnosis and the assessment for treatment response in oncology allow us to analyze the changes in body composition that occur during treatment and how ...
Arroba Hidalgo, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
The human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a non-classic MHC class I molecule. It is called “non-classic” because it differs from classic MHC class I molecules due to its very low amount of polymorphism ...
Badia Ramentol, Jordi (Date of defense: 2020-01-14)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second-highest cause for cancer-related mortality worldwide. Patients suffering from CRC generally don’t die from primary tumours but rather from metastasis, for which ...