Papantoniou, Kyriaki (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)
Recent human and animal data indicate that night shift work might increase the risk for cancer. Epidemiologic evidence is limited and has mostly focused on breast cancer while underlying mechanisms are ...
Lytras, Theodoros (Date of defense: 2018-05-22)
Introduction: Occupational exposures are considered to be one of the newer and important risk factors for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) besides tobacco smoking. However, the evidence ...
Castaño Vinyals, Gemma (Date of defense: 2007-12-14)
L'objectiu d'aquest tesi és avaluar els diferents passos en el camí que va des de l'exposició a contaminants atmosfèrics/PAHs fins a la malaltia, el càncer de bufeta urinària. Es van mesurar partícules ...
Vafeiadi, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-02-26)
Introduction: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) include a wide range of synthetic chemical substances that are ubiquitous in the environment and are identified as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) ...
Hinchliffe, Alice (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)
Heat exposure is a growing concern for many workers around the world as climate change is causing global average temperatures to rise. Heat exposure has been linked to a number of key carcinogenic ...
Robles Hellín, Claudia (Date of defense: 2014-07-07)
Polyomaviruses are suspected to cause cancer in humans although to date Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) is the only proven human carcinogen. Potential associations of up to nine polyomaviruses with 468 ...
Palomar Cros, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-11-02)
Les malalties no transmissibles (MNT) causen cada any 41 milions de morts en tot el món. Arran del descobriment del rellotge circadiari i dels efectes nocius del treball de nit continuat, s'ha enfocat ...
Papadopoulou, Eleni (Date of defense: 2013-05-21)
Introduction Diet is the main source of exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including dioxins and PCBs. During pregnancy the fetus is exposed to POPs which can lead to adverse health ...
Castro Giner, Francesc (Date of defense: 2009-11-20)
L'asma és una malaltia d'etiologia complexa, formada per factors genètics i ambientals, on la interrelació de ambdós factors mitjançant interaccions gen-ambient juga un paper clau. L'objectiu d'aquesta ...
616 - Pathology. Clinical medicine (2)
616.2 - Pathology of the respiratory system. Complaints of the respiratory organs (2)
616.6 - Pathology of the urogenital system. Urinary and sexual (genital) complaints. Urology (2)
577 - Material bases of life. Biochemistry. Molecular biology. Biophysics (1)