Martín Flores, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Huntington's disease (HD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases that progress with the death of selective neuronal subpopulations. Neuronal dysfunction and death are ...
Gómez Núñez, Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)
Although an extensive number of investigators, during the arise of this printed materials technology, were devoted to make very interesting discoveries concerning the most used sol-gel precursor to ...
Roura Fornells, Esther (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
The objective of this thesis is to estimate prospectively the association between environmental cofactors and the risk of developing cervical cancer and pre-cancer, including tobacco smoking, hormonal ...
Balaceanu, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)
1. The Force Field Accuracy Problem. The utility and applicability of MD simulations to model biomolecular systems goes only as far as its ability to sufficiently sample the conformational space and ...
Cuko, Andy (Date of defense: 2018-09-24)
Properties of nanomaterials are known to be size dependent and generally are very different from those of the corresponding bulk. Such behaviour, which is strongly system and structure dependent, allows ...
Salomó i Prat, Ernest (Date of defense: 2018-10-19)
Asymmetric hydrogenation of double bonds by means of organometallic catalysis is a powerful tool for organic synthesis; it is an efficient and simple method to produce valued chiral compounds. Among the ...
Turquet, François-Xavier (Date of defense: 2018-12-17)
ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species), such as H2O2, HO● and O2-●, are naturally produced by the metabolism of living beings. However, they can appear in large quantities in the case of certain diseases ...
Martínez Quetglas, Iris (Date of defense: 2018-01-09)
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling is frequently altered in HCC, including activation of IGF1R, IGF2 overexpression, IGFBP3 downregulation and IGF2R allelic losses1,2. A previous study from our ...
Sánchez Torres, Javier Alirio (Date of defense: 2018-03-21)
With the creation and worldwide diffusion of the Internet since the end of the last century, social and economic relations have seen a strong tendency to move from analog to digital, generating new ways ...
Peso Fernández, Marcos (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
The Pyrenean frog (Rana pyrenaica) is a Pyrenees endemic species, mostly distributed between Navarra and Aragón, and recently was described in few streams of France. The typical habitat of the species ...