Tarrado Castellarnau, Miriam Neus (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
Cancer is characterised by the lost of physiological control and the malignant transformation of cells that acquire functional and genetic abnormalities, leading to tumour development and progression. ...
Matito Sánchez, Cecilia (Date of defense: 2006-01-13)
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in countries throughout the world. Increase in the production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) has been implicated in many human disease processes, including ...
Carreras Cardona, Anna (Date of defense: 2012-05-04)
During aerobic cell metabolism, molecular oxygen is reduced to water through electron-transfer reactions, and the oxygen not completely reduced is transformed into a set of neutral and free radical ...
Polat, Ibrahim H. (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
In this thesis, tumor metabolic reprogramming has been exploited in order to propose new targets in cancer treatment. On one hand, we explored the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) enzymes as putative ...