di Domenico, Angelique (Date of defense: 2017-12-18)
La malaltia de Parkinson (PD) s'associa amb la degeneració de les neurones dopaminèrgiques del mesencèfal ventral (vmDA) i l'acumulació d'inclusions citoplasmàtiques, els cossos de Lewy, compostos ...
Garcia Carbonell, Ricard (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory processes that affect the gastrointestinal tract. IBD is characterized by an intestinal inflammation and epithelial cell injury leading to a ...
Scaffidi, Salvatore (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
Once a target is identified and characterized, the long pathway to develop a drug starts. In this process, biophysical methods have an important part to play and nowadays are firmly combined at several ...
Iglesias Fernández, Javier (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
Carbohydrates play a central role in transport and storage of energy and as molecular building blocks. Additionally, glycoconjugates, specifically glycoproteins and glycolipids, are important components ...
Alves Figueiredo, Hugo Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
El trasplante de islotes ha sido reconocido como una prometedora opción de tratamiento de la diabetes tipo 1 (DT1) tras la introducción del protocolo de Edmonton, el cual enfatiza el requerimiento de ...
Duran Ferrer, Martí (Date of defense: 2020-11-19)
The DNA from our cells carries the genetic information to build a human being. This information is interpreted through epigenetic marks that lead to tightly coordinated and cell type-specific gene ...
Díaz Sáez, Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-02-12)
Neuregulin-4 has emerged as a novel adipokine in recent years. Several authors have previously explored the endocrine role of this adipocyte-secreted growth factor in the liver metabolism. In those ...
Terré Torras, Berta (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
The suppression of genome instability by the DNA damage response (DDR) is critical for preventing human diseases characterized by developmental defects, infertility and in some cases, elevated cancer ...
Domostegui Fernández, Ana (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
The oncogene MYC is altered and its expression is deregulated in up to 70% of human cancers, including B cell neoplasms. Earlier studies in a mouse model of Eμ-MYC-driven B-cell lymphomas reported that ...
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 ...