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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Yubero Lahoz, Samanta (Date of defense: 2013-11-18)
3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) is one of the most abused recreational drugs in the world. It has been extensively reported that this drug inhibits its own metabolism by inhibiting ...
Fonseca Casals, Francina (Date of defense: 2010-11-17)
Although the well established efficacy of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in the opioid dependence disorder, there is a group of patients that are poor responders. The study of the influence of ...