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Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is an aggressive subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphomas associated with poor prognosis and frequent relapses. Recently, the neuronal transcription factor SOX11 has been identified as a very specific ...
Every year, through mass drug administration (MDA), hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people receive a single annual dose of one or more drugs to eliminate certain parasitic worm or bacterial infections. Some of ...
The objectives of this thesis are to evaluate the strategies for expanding the donor pool by using expanded criteria donors and for increasing patient and graft survival by optimization of immunosuppression strategies. It ...
1. Generation and characterization of a radioresistant cell line In the first part of this project of Thesis, we subjected culture cells to fractionated radiation and clonal selection, to obtain a modified cohort of ...
Aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is a clinical syndrome characterized by the combination of nasal polyps (NPs), chronic hypertrophic eosinophilic sinusitis, asthma and severity to any medication that inhibits ...
BACKGROUND: Surgical treatment of Insular gliomas is technically challenging and may lead to high postoperative morbidity. However, previous research has proven that maximal safe resection is critical for ...
El trabajo contenido en esta Tesis Doctoral ha ido encaminado a mejorar el conocimiento del Melanoma Familiar con el fin de mejorar su prevención y tratamiento. En el primero de los trabajos publicados se han descrito y ...
El cáncer gástrico es el resultado de sucesivos cambios histológicos en la mucosa gástrica conocidos como lesiones preneoplásicas y cuya sucesión es conocida como la Cascada de Correa, constituyendo el mecanismo de ...
The cerebral cortex is organized in complex circuits of neurons strongly interconnected in a conductive medium. During deep sleep stage, this neuronal connectivity generates recurrent synchronized synaptic activity leading ...
Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium parasites and it is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquito. P. falciparum has a complex life cycle that includes important stages in two different hosts: a mosquito and ...
BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity (i.e. the presence of more than one chronic disease in the same patient) and comorbidity (i.e. the presence of more than one chronic disease in the presence of an index disease) are main sources ...
Pediatric RMS is a developmental tumor that affects patients from birth to late adolescence. RMS tumorigenesis involves the stalk of embryological myogenic processes. Classically, two main subgroups of RMS have been defined ...
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in the western countries. It is currently an incurable disease. CLL is a B-lymphoid neoplasm in which the microenvironment plays a key role in the development ...
To achieve malaria elimination, great emphasis must be put on targeting the parasite’s transmissible stages, so that along with effective treatment of clinical malaria caused by asexual stages, complete interruption of the ...
In this thesis we have focused on two novel therapeutic strategies that target the crosstalk between the tumor cells and the microenvironment. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains an incurable disease where high ...
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is gaining momentum due to its contribution to cancer progression and therapy resistance. This TME has a direct crosstalk with tumor cells that involves the activation of different ...
Por el nacimiento y habitual radicación en las Islas Baleares, y en tanto cursamos los estudios preuniversitarios. permitió que durante varios años llamara poderosamente nuestra atención el observar en innumerables ...
Los Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria (TCA) son enfermedades mentales complejas en las que convergen numerosos de factores de riesgo y mantenimiento. La literatura previa pone de relieve la importancia de los rasgos ...
La isquèmia renal és una de les principals causes del Fracas Renal Agut i en el context del trasplantament renal predisposa l’òrgan a un dany crònic i a una possible pèrdua de l’empelt. La cèl•lula epitelial tubular ...
The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is increasing worldwide. There are several explanations to this fact, such as the increased prevalence of obesity, population’s ageing, and the lack of physical activity ...
