Sanchis Ruiz, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-10-20)
Heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (HFPEF) is the most prevalent type of heart failure (HF) in the outpatient setting. Left ventricular ejection fraction values (considered ...
Stergiotou, Iosifina (Date of defense: 2014-04-10)
INTRODUCTION: Preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction share a pathophysiological basis due to a common placental etiology and variable maternal-fetal disease. The main hypothesis of this thesis is ...
Monteiro D'Albuquerque, Polyana (Date of defense: 2015-06-15)
Antiretroviral therapy has dramatically reduced morbidity and mortality associated with HIV-1 infection and converted AIDS into a manageable chronic disease. During the past 15 years, antiretroviral ...
Monelli, Erika (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
In response to nutritional variation, white adipose tissue (WAT) undergoes a physiological remodelling that involves qualitative and quantitative changes in resident cells and is coordinated with ...
Nadeu Prat, Ferran (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common form of adult leukemia in Western countries. Although the disease might follow an indolent course, it rapidly progresses in a fraction of cases, ...
Barrios Barri, Oriol de (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
The members of ZEB family of transcription factors (ZEB1 and ZEB2) are widely known for its role in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a highly relevant process during development and tumor ...
Mitjà Villar, Oriol (Date of defense: 2012-06-01)
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 ...
Gunnard, Katarina (Date of defense: 2012-05-21)
The central scientific objective of the current dissertation was to take a multidisciplinary approach to make use of the full potential information, both scientific and clinical to aid prevention and ...
Madrid Castillo, María Dolores (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
Infant and child mortality have played a crucial role in health transition patterns and both have been considered as good indicators of development and demographic modernization. The establishment of ...
Bouman, Walter Pierre (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
There is an increasing awareness and visibility of transgender people, particularly in Europe and North America. Compared to the non-trans general population transgender people remain a vulnerable group ...
616 - Pathology. Clinical medicine (54)
616.8 - Neurology. Neuropathology. Nervous system (25)
616.9 - Communicable diseases. Infectious and contagious diseases, fevers (17)
577 - Material bases of life. Biochemistry. Molecular biology. Biophysics (12)