Castizo Olier, Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a non-invasive technique widely used in body composition assessment. Nevertheless, its accuracy is compromised because of its reliance on regression equations ...
Jiménez Flores, Lizbeth Minerva (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western World and accounts for over 700,000 deaths every year worldwide. The prognosis is dismal, with an average 5-year survival ...
González Foruria, Iñaki (Date of defense: 2018-01-17)
This thesis includes two projects that evaluate the relationship between oxidative stress, the ADAM17/Notch signaling pathway, fibrosis and immunological dysfunction in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. The ...
Medina Alcaraz, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-12-10)
Depression is one of the most prevalent disorders and one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Regarding economic implications, depressive disorders have also a large impact on health budgets ...
Liu, Xianyun (Date of defense: 2018-05-09)
Nowadays, serious concern exists about atmospheric CO2 increase related with environmental impact and climate change. The reuse of CO2 through its chemical recycling is a promising route, which could ...
Siqueira Campos, Felipe (Date of defense: 2018-06-18)
Biodiversity patterns are results of ecological and evolutionary processes. Understanding the forces shaping biodiversity patterns help to predict the responses of ecosystems to environmental change. ...
Català i Castro, Frederic (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
Mechanics is the branch of physics that studies movement and force, and plays an evident role in life. The swimming dynamics of bacteria in search of nutrients, organelle transport by molecular motors ...
Hernández Rodríguez, Elba María (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
The need of substituting the current energetic model by a system based on clean Renewable Energy Sources (RES) have gained more importance in the last decades due to the environmental issues related to ...
Yoldi, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2018-10-23)
The discovery that RANK signaling mediates the protumorigenic role of progesterone in the mammary gland and its association with poor prognosis in breast cancer has opened the possibility of using RANKL ...
Botteri, Gaia (Date of defense: 2018-03-14)
Diabetes represents one of the biggest health challenges of the 21st century. Insulin resistance is the primary defect in the most common form of diabetes, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), and is defined ...