Rodríguez Cortez, Virginia Carolina (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)
The proper function of the immune system requires complex regulatory mechanisms and a highly strict balance in the amount and function of immune and non-immune elements. Part of the primary immunodeficiencies ...
Canivell Fusté, Silvia (Date of defense: 2014-10-14)
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 ...
Arqués Casamitjana, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of death worldwide, especially in the late stages of the disease when relapse and metastasis occur. Despite the improvements achieved recently in terms of ...
Moreta Moraleda, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-01-25)
The hypothesis of the present thesis is that the presence or absence of some chromatin factors may facilitate or impair the action of chemotherapeutic drugs in colorectal cancer (CRC). Chromatin factors ...
Terrades Garcia, Nekane (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic granulomatous vasculitis affecting large- and medium-sized vessels. This disease can lead to different symptoms related to vascular or systemic inflammation, such ...
Boluda Casas, Susana (Date of defense: 2016-05-20)
Filamentous tau pathologies are the hallmark lesions of several neurodegenerative tauopathies including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD). These diseases show cell type-specific ...
Vento Tormo, Roser (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
En aquesta tesi s’han estudiat els mecanismes epigenètics implicats en diferents processos d’inflamació i diferenciació a partir de monòcits (MO). És possible recapitular la diferenciació terminal ...
Latasiewicz, Marta Joanna (Date of defense: 2020-03-12)
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a hereditary condition characterized by systemic deposition of transthyretin (TTR), which causes debilitating peripheral polyneuropathy, cardiopathy, nephropathy ...
Santini, Ziggi Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-10-07)
INTRODUCTION: There is conflicting evidence regarding the role of social support networks in health and wellbeing and more research is needed to address the lack of information. The objective of this ...
López Luque, Judit (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)
Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) is an important growth suppressor in hepatocytes, inhibiting proliferation and inducing cell death. However, it also plays a role in other processes such as ...
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)
616.4 - Pathology of the lymphatic system, haemopoietic (haematopoietic) organs, endocrines (10)