Lorente-Sorolla Martínez-Acítores, Clara (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
This doctoral thesis describes the participation of epigenetic mechanisms, and more specifically DNA methylation, in innate immune responses against pathogens. Innate immunity is the first barrier of ...
Falcones Olarte, Kevin Bryan (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)
HYPOTHESIS 1: The frequency and the plateau values displayed by OSA-related IH patterns are important to understand the endothelial dysfunction triggered by OSA. AIM 1: A) General: To evaluate ...
Barranco López, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-10-03)
The study of supersymmetry has led us to a better understanding of field theories, specially in the strong coupling regime. In this thesis we have tried to show this through several examples. These ...
Hosseini, Seyed Ali (Date of defense: 2015-05-08)
A complete understanding of complex formation between proteins and ligands, a crucial matter for pharmacology and, more in general, in biomedicine, requires a detailed knowledge of their static and ...
Obiol Pardo, Cristian (Date of defense: 2008-10-13)
Cancer is the second disease leading cause of death in industrialized countries. Although early detection and more efficient drugs are responsible of the reduction of mortality, several cancers still ...
Barroso de Freitas, Nuno Ricardo (Date of defense: 2012-10-22)
The main purpose of this thesis is to apply the modular approach to Diophantine equations to study some Fermat-type equations of signature (r; r; p) with r >/= 5 a fixed prime and “p” varying. In ...
Benet Cabero, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-11-09)
BACKGROUND: Surgical treatment of Insular gliomas is technically challenging and may lead to high postoperative morbidity. However, previous research has proven that maximal safe resection ...
Robles García, Virginia (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)
Clathrin is an evolutionary conserved molecule that coats membranes endocytosed from the plasma membrane and those that move between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and endosomes of eukaryotic cells. It ...
Cotín Martínez, Javier (Date of defense: 2012-12-21)
Birds have been widely used as bioindicators. In this study we face the use of birds as bioindicators of metal pollution in two different scenarios of contamination: one that takes place in an aquatic ...
Zeman, Dan Cristian (Date of defense: 2011-04-26)
The main aim of the thesis is to give a semantic account of implicit content – the kind of content that plays a crucial role in implicit communication. Implicit communication is a species of communication ...