Norris, Richard (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)
Insulinomas are extremely rare pancreatic neuroendocrine (PNET) tumours that develop from the β-cells of the pancreas.β-cells are the only cells capable of producing the hormine insulin, and play a major ...
Rojas Expósito, Luis Alfonso (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
Cancer virotherapy with oncolytic adenoviruses represents a promising therapeutic approach due to the capacity of these viruses to infect and selectively kill tumor cells without damaging normal tissues. ...
Bonada i Caparrós, Núria (Date of defense: 2003-04-02)
The main objective of this work has been to determine the structure of the macroinvertebrate communities in mediterranean rivers at different scales, organization and taxonomical levels. To achieve that, ...
Banjer, Hamsa Jameel (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
Transportome alterations have been associated with oncogenesis. The loss of human Concentrative Nucleoside Transporter 1 (hCNT1) during carcinogenesis seems to be a relatively common event in tumors and ...
Rodenbusch, Cornel-Peter (Date of defense: 2021-05-03)
This doctoral thesis presents an analysis of the judicial procedure in Catalonia between the years 950 and 1130. Catalan Archives preserve an exceptional number of documents related to justice which ...
Salem, Mohamed Ould (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
This PhD thesis explores the use of wide band gap chalcopyrite (CIGS) material and its application in thin film solar cells onto transparent back contacts, as a way to promote the use of thin film ...
Zamora-Olave, Carla (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
[eng] Dental trauma has been reported as one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, affecting approximately a billion people. The impact on the individual is not only physical but also psychosocial. ...
Gómez Palomino, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
In the present Thesis we continued a previous study of the nucleophilic character of titanium(IV) enolates. Particularly,we focused our attention on the analysis of substrate-controlled Michael additions ...
Martínez Benito, María (Date of defense: 2013-09-05)
Sex allocation (SA) refers to the proportion of resources allocated to male and female reproduction; relatedly, sex ratio (SR) refers to the numbers of each sex that are produced. Hence, their scientific ...
Youssif, Catrin (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
Chronic inflammation is a hallmark of colon cancer, and patients with inflammatory bowel disease are prone to developing colon tumors. In recent years, many efforts have been devoted to characterize the ...