Montero Martín, Sara (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
Despite the latest advances in early diagnosis and increased resources employed to develop new therapeutic options, effective control of cancer disease remains a challenge. In fact, cancer is the second ...
Balcells Nadal, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
Metastasis and drug resistance represent the two main causes of therapeutic failure in oncology. In the present dissertation, the interplay between them has been interrogated using metabolomics, systems ...
Almacellas i Canals, Eugènia (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Lysosomes are the primary degradative organelles in mammalian cells. Indeed, lysosome enzymatic cocktail allows the degradation of a vast repertoire of cellular material through different converging ...
Amirthalingam, Ezhil (Date of defense: 2018-10-01)
This thesis has its main focus on developing multi-functional nanomaterials, that we called nano- and microtools through two different approaches, top-down to provide support and bottom up to give ...
Camacho Castillo, Luz del Carmen (Date of defense: 2011-03-31)
Cer and So are involved in regulation of apoptosis and cell cycle arrest while on the other hand S1P promotes cell growth and inhibits apoptosis. The antagonistic effects of these metabolites are regulated ...
Arribas Hortigüela, Lorena (Date of defense: 2022-06-30)
The use of imaging techniques routinely used for diagnosis and the assessment for treatment response in oncology allow us to analyze the changes in body composition that occur during treatment and how ...
Arroba Hidalgo, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
The human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a non-classic MHC class I molecule. It is called “non-classic” because it differs from classic MHC class I molecules due to its very low amount of polymorphism ...
Badia Ramentol, Jordi (Date of defense: 2020-01-14)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second-highest cause for cancer-related mortality worldwide. Patients suffering from CRC generally don’t die from primary tumours but rather from metastasis, for which ...
Riaño Canalias, Ferran (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Ribosome biogenesis is one of the most energy consuming anabolic processes in a cell, required for the generation of the translational machinery to grow and proliferate. Moreover, this process necessitates ...
Gutierrez Prat, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-10-03)
Cells often need to respond to damaging internal and external stimuli. One of the pathways that is frequently activated by stress stimuli involves activation of the kinase p38alpha, which can phosphorylate ...