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Fabregat Palau, Joel (Date of defense: 2022-09-22)
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and fluoroquinolone antibiotics (FQs) are pollutants of environmental interest due to their widespread presence in environmental compartments and their high toxicity and disrupting effects ...
Puig Gomà-Camps, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-06-20)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It was first described in 1906 by Alois Alzheimer. Later on, in 1984 George Glenner and Colin Masters isolated the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide from a human brain ...
Gil Escolano, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Marine natural products (MNPs) are, undoubtedly, highly valuable starting points for drug-development programs. Generally, MNPs show a well-defined spatial orientation that have evolved for thousands of years to interact ...
Serra Vidal, Bernat (Date of defense: 2014-05-27)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder which major risk factor is age. Current drugs only offer symptomatic alleviation in AD, thus a disease-modifying treatment is urgent. The amyloid-β (Aβ) protein ...
Pajares Rojas, Arturo Javier (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Nowadays there is a growing interest in the capture and utilization of CO2 because of the increase of its concentration in the atmosphere. Captured CO2 can be recycled through different processes to obtain several value-added ...
Picardo, Massimo (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
Natural toxins include a multitude of toxic secondary metabolites produced by animals, bacteria, fungi algae, and plants that are generally not intended as environmental contaminants of concern for water quality. However, ...
Matarín Morales, Joan Antoni (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)
Peptides are defined as compounds that contain between two and fifty amino acids connected together by amide bonds. Inside our body, peptides are natural biological messengers that play critical roles in human physiology ...
Palà Pujadas, Judith (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)
Chemical protein synthesis has become a potent tool for the synthesis of proteins, especially those which are not easily accessed by DNA recombinant methods, such as proteins with posttranslational modifications. The key ...
Zamudio Vázquez, Rubí (Date of defense: 2014-02-14)
Triostins are members of the quinoxaline antibiotic family, together with the "prototypical bisintercalator" echinomycin. These molecules display interesting antitumour activities as they inhibit transcription through ...
Frigolé Vivas, Marta (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
[eng] Drug discovery is the process by which new drugs are found and developed into the market. Given the scope of this thesis, the term “drug” will refer to small molecules and the term “target” to proteins, otherwise ...
Vinardell Cruañas, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-05-04)
Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR), which is a combination of membrane separation and anaerobic digestion, is an emerging biotechnology for municipal sewage treatment. The application of AnMBRs in the mainline of ...
Vílchez Maldonado, Silvia (Date of defense: 2014-03-21)
El objetivo principal de la presente tesis es el diseño de nanopartículas de etilcelulosa para su utilización como vehículos de principios activos o sustancias lipofílicas y su deposición sobre un tejido, con la finalidad ...
Wang, Yan (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
The photocatalytic hydrogen production is considered an environmentally promising and friendly method, which could lead to achieve clean and renewable hydrogen and contribute in the future to store solar energy as chemical ...
Ninot Pedrosa, Martí (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
Amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) is strongly linked to the aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Aβ is the main component of the amyloid plaques found in the brain of AD patients, however, Aβ is also present in the brain of ...
López Berbel, Martí (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)
[eng] Transition metal carbides (TMCs) have acquired a wide potential as a green chemistry catalysts. Their relatively high abundance and their catalytic performance makes them great candidates to replace scarce and pollutant ...
Grandas Sagarra, Anna (Date of defense: 1985-07-08)
L'objectiu principal d'aquesta Tesi és posar a punt una metodologia de síntesi en fase sòlida de segments peptídics protegits, la qual cosa comporta l´engalzament successiu dels aminoàcids sobre el suport sòlid, el ...