Pantazi, Eirini (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is an inevitable situation in clinical settings such as liver transplantation and hepatic resection. It develops when blood flow is interrupted for a long period of ...
Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-07-18)
Cooking made humans evolve. Cooking modified our gastrointestinal system, reducing the gut size and energy expenditure for digestion, which enabled the appearance of a more energy-dependent brain. Cooking ...
Puig i Cotado, Ferranda (Date of defense: 2007-02-27)
Les cèl·lules estan exposades a diferents estímuls mecànics al llarg de la seva vida. Actualment s'accepta que les forces mecàniques juguen un paper important en funcions crítiques cel·lulars com ara ...
Merlo, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2015-06-01)
The first part of this thesis articulates and defends the Subjectivist View of the Mental. According to this view, my mental states are essentially different from the mental states of everyone else, but ...
Villa Vidaller, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-09-27)
This thesis focuses on the use of Cold Gas Spray technology (CGS) to spray different nature powders onto light alloys with the aim of increasing their wear resistance. The growing industrial interest ...
Sales Pardo, Marta (Date of defense: 2002-11-22)
Disorder is present in many systems in nature and in many different versions. For instance, the dislocations of a crystal lattice, or the randomness of the interaction between magnetic moments. One of ...
Giménez Carabaza, Neus (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in the western countries. It is currently an incurable disease. CLL is a B-lymphoid neoplasm in which the microenvironment plays a key role ...
Oller Salvia, Benjamí (Date of defense: 2015-05-18)
Brain delivery is a major unmet challenge because most drugs cannot cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Despite the restrictive nature of this barrier, brain vasculature reaches essentially every neural ...
Soucek, Richard (Date of defense: 2014-01-28)
The study deals with the synthesis and biological activity of 4 different antitumours: Tetrahydro-[1,4]-dioxanisoquinolines, combretastatin A-4, dioxancarbazoles and resveratrol analogues. This study ...
Sánchez Serra, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
The southwestern margin of the Iberian Peninsula, which includes the Gulf of Cadiz, is characterized by a present-day active deformation mainly driven by the NW-SE trending convergence between the African ...