Llaudó Vallmajor, Inés (Date of defense: 2013-12-17)
Both immunological and non immunological factors are involved in chronic allograft nephropathy such as donor specific alloreactivity, chronic inflammation and nephrotoxicity induced by anticalcineurinics. ...
Ribera Puig, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-06-16)
Orthopaedic device-related infections represent a health care problem of first magnitude due to the increasing incidence, complexity of management, and elevated cost. These device related infections ...
Simon Coma, Marina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Malignant tumors in children and adolescents are one of the leading causes of death from disease in this population despite being rare events. The main liver tumor in children is Hepatoblastoma (HB) ...
Pujals Pruneda, Mireia (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
RAGE is a transmembrane protein of the immunoglobulin family highly expressed during embryonic development but rarely expressed in adult healthy tissues. However, under cellular stress RAGE is re-expressed ...
Ruiz Mejías, Marcel (Date of defense: 2013-09-23)
The present Thesis addressed different questions concerning spontaneous oscillatory activity in the cerebral cortex, including functional comparative studies, studies of mechanisms generating this ...
Ninfali, Chiara (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
Muscle atrophy, which is characterized by excessive protein catabolism, is one of the major adaptive processes that occur in several physiopathological and clinical conditions, to counteract stressing ...
Hessheimer, Amelia Judith (Date of defense: 2011-04-13)
The hypothesis of this doctoral thesis is two-fold: 1. Excessive portal vein flow is present immediately after portal reperfusion in the recipient and is the instigating factors in a series of events ...
Petit Pedrol, Mar (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)
BACKGROUND: The autoimmune encephalitis represents a new category of immune- mediated diseases of the brain that are mediated by antibodies against neurotransmitter receptors, ion channels or neuronal ...
Mira Martínez, Sofía (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
Malaria is responsible of almost half a million deaths every year. Currently, campaigns for the control and elimination of malaria are implemented in malaria endemic areas. However, drug resistance is ...
González Tarragó, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)
This thesis is a study on the integrin-mediated mechanoresponse by binding partners and force loading rates. Regarding the binding partners, here we demonstrate an alternative and counter-intuitive ...
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)