Guerreiro Duarte Rivaes da Silva, Ana Sofia (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Migration associated with movements between breeding and wintering areas allow animals to maximize fitness in response to seasonal changes in resources (Dingle 2014). Some of the most incredible migrations ...
Santos Alves, Estela (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
Liver diseases resulting from the toxicity induced by frequent pharmacological drug consumption are among the main health problems of modern western societies. On the other hand, healthy life-style-based ...
Rotondo, Floriana (Date of defense: 2018-02-19)
The current theories about endothelial inflammation in the adipose tissue in metabolic syndrome point to hypoxia as one of its main causes. Nevertheless, our group has found that both 3T3L1 adipocytes, ...
Posada Pérez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)
Our society has a problem with the use of fossil fuels, due to the vast and exceeding emissions derived from human activities. Two ways could be consider to mitigate these harmful effects. On the one ...
Martínez Delgado, Paula (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
Mitosis is a process that ensure the correct distribution of the chromosomes between the two newly generated cells, is tightly regulated by two main processes, protein degradation controlled by the APC ...
Alvarez Periel, Elena (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an autosomic mutation on the Huntingtin (HTT) coding gene. HD is mainly characterized by the appearance of motor symptoms or choreas, ...
Bartrolí Comellas, Mariona (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Targeting cancer metastasis has gained considerable importance in the recent years when aiming to increase patients’ overall survival. In Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), the discovery of metastatic biomarkers ...
Rodríguez Fernández, Diana (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
Carbon tetrachloride (CT) and chloroform (CF) are chlorinated methanes (CMs) which have been released to the environment for decades owing to scarce waste management. Since they are dense non-aqueous ...
Marco Lafuente, Inés (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
This PhD dissertation is part of an international research project, Sustainable Farm Systems, which seeks to analyze pre-industrial to industrial agriculture transition from a biophysical perspective. ...
Sadian, Samuel (Date of defense: 2018-02-12)
This study proposes a novel approach to understanding the contribution that consumer action makes to social change, both at the level of conceptual generalisation and when applied to institutionalised ...