Feliu Josa, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2021-03-08)
[eng] INTRODUCTION. Smoking is one of the major public health problems of our times, killing eight-million people a year from direct tobacco-related diseases. Active smoking has been associated with an ...
Salamanca Viloria, Juan (Date of defense: 2022-05-27)
Tribbles (TRIB) homologues proteins are a family of three pseudokinases withan important role in controlling immunity, metabolism, and cancer throughprotein-protein interactions (PPIs). TRIB pseudokinases ...
Martínez Campanario, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 2021-05-27)
Macrophages polarization from an inflammatory to a tolerogenic state occurs in both physiological and pathological, and this reprogramming is key in the development of several diseases as different as ...
Carreras Salinas, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[eng] The bacterial colonisation of the respiratory tract is critical for health as it establishes a symbiotic relationship between the bacterial community and the host. Haemophilus influenzae and ...
Rey Carrizo, Matías (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
Influenza is a major health problem worldwide, as the periodic pandemics of the 20th century have highlighted. Some countermeasures have been developed and have indeed diminish the devastating effects ...
Rodríguez Urgellés, Ened (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, psychiatric, and cognitive manifestations. The disease is caused by an unstable expansion ...
Pascal i Capdevila, Mariona (Date of defense: 2012-02-24)
Currently food allergy diagnostic tests are not able to predict clinical reactivity in sensitized patients (those with specific IgE against a particular allergen). Traditionally, allergy diagnostic tests ...
Martínez Gutiérrez, Alfredo (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
One of the main causal factors of skin aging is ultraviolet radiation as part of sun exposure. This radiation induces many changes at the molecular level that alter the proper function of skin biological ...
Ramírez Mahaluf, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-05-14)
This thesis is composed of two complementary projects. One focuses on the study of the dynamics between emotional and cognitive networks in healthy subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Puigdellívol Cañadell, Maria del Mar (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of neuronal dysfunction and degeneration involved in Huntington’s disease is a goal of increasing urgency for society and scientific community. In this Thesis ...