Boronat Rigol, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)
Hydroxytyrosol is a health-promoting dietary phenol mainly present in extra virgin olive oil. Wine and beer are sources of tyrosol, a related phenolic compound. We have demonstrated that in humans tyrosol ...
Almeida Cotrim, Bruno (Date of defense: 2011-01-10)
Obesity constitutes a problem whose manifestations have consequences in almost every field of the medicine and nowadays there is a lack of pharmacological therapy alternatives for its long term ...
Soldevila Domènech, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2023-10-05)
Les intervencions que milloren l’estil de vida (dieta, exercici físic i entrenament cognitiu) poden frenar el declivi cognitiu en persones a risc de demència. En el context d’intervencions en l’estil de ...
Ventura Alemany, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-12-16)
The use of hair and oral fluid for drugs of abuse testing has increased over the last years. For this reason, the assurance that results provided using these matrices are reliable and error-free is ...
Segura Agulló, Mireia (Date of defense: 2004-07-09)
La 3,4-metilendioximetamfetamina (MDMA, èxtasi) és una droga de síntesi que es consumeix entre els joves de forma recreativa. S'ha postulat que la 3,4-dihidroximetamfetamina (HHMA), metabòlit que es ...
Khymenets, Olha (Date of defense: 2010-06-21)
The evaluation of olive oil antioxidants, hydroxytyrosol and tyrosol, in vivo biological activities is challenged due to scarce data on their metabolic disposition and activities of their glucuronides, ...
Xicota Vila, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
Clinical trials seeking to improve cognitive performance are in dire need of biochemical biomarkers that reflect the processes taking place in the brain. In Down syndrome, this information is crucial ...
Rodríguez-Morató, Jose (Date of defense: 2016-06-20)
Hydroxytyrosol [2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethanol], a potent bioactive molecule mainly present in virgin olive oil and to a lower extent in wine, is also a by-product of dopamine metabolism. In a previous ...
Pizarro Lozano, Mª Nieves (Date of defense: 2004-10-15)
La MDMA és cap de sèrie dels entactògens. El seu consum provoca toxicitat aguda i neurodegeneració a mig/llarg termini del sistema serotoninèrgic. Es postula que la bioactivació metabòlica podria ser ...
Olesti Muñoz, Eulàlia (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
In the last decade, the rapid emergence of a group of compounds known as novel psychoactive substances (NPS) has become a worrying problem due to their ambiguous legal status, their easy availability, ...