Sanz Sender, Silvia (Date of defense: 2017-04-28)
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 ...
Yélamos i Pena, Oriol (Date of defense: 2019-10-04)
Skin cancer is major health problem due to its increased incidence in the last decades. Standard treatment of skin cancer is still surgery, which can be challenging to perform since most skin cancers ...
Quintanilla Leo, Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most frequent malignancies worldwide and it is considered an important healthcare problem. Moreover, colorectal carcinogenesis is a long stepwise process through a ...
Pittolo, Silvia (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
In the brain events happen in the scale of milliseconds, and the fine processes of neurons and neuroglia are highly compartmentalized at a microscopic level. These exclusive features of the brain define ...
Papageorgiou, Katherina (Date of defense: 2013-02-28)
This thesis aims to progress in deciphering the effect of the cytokines secreted by the visceral adipose tissue of obese individuals with type 2 diabetes on the endothelium, and therefore contribute to ...
Illa Armengol, Míriam (Date of defense: 2017-06-22)
BACKGROUND: Chronic hypoxia due to placental insufficiency and prenatal undernutrition are probably the two major causes worldwide of an adverse intrauterine environment having an impact on neurodevelopment. ...
Isetta, Valentina (Date of defense: 2013-04-05)
INTRODUCTION The pressure to contain health costs, particularly by avoiding hospitalizations and promoting the early discharge of patients, is generating a greater demand for home healthcare at a ...
Maeso Díaz, Raquel (Date of defense: 2020-01-28)
The socioeconomic and medical improvements of the last decades have led to a relevant increase in the median age of worldwide population. Although numerous studies described the impact of aging in ...
Cortés Hinojosa, Marlies (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
ZEB1 is a transcription factor whose expression in cancer cells promotes tumor initiation and progression. In this study, we for the first time characterized Zeb1 and study its function in macrophages ...
Vila Casadesús, Maria (Date of defense: 2017-09-05)
En esta tesis se han desarrollado e implementado distintas herramientas bioinformáticas que permiten el estudio de las interacciones miRNA-mRNA en contextos celulares específicos. oncretamente se ha ...
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)