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Pigem Rodeja, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)
INTRODUCTION: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most dreadful and life-threatening complication in colon cancer (CC) surgery. It is associated to an increase of morbimortality, longer hospital stay, increased healthcare costs ...
Blancafort Jorquera, Adriana (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
In this thesis,the association of FASN (fatty acid synthase) expression with clinicopathological and anthropometric characteristics in breast cancer patients is studied to find out FASN role as a prognostic in early stage ...
Giró Perafita, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2017-01-17)
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents 20% of breast cancer and patients receive only general chemotherapy. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is commonly expressed in TNBC and it is associated with poor ...
Bagó Mas, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
More than half of spinal cord injury patients develop central neuropathic pain, which is largely refractory to current treatments. Developing neuropathic pain has a high impact on the quality of life becoming an emotional, ...
Bonmatí Santané, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-11-28)
Increased metabolic disease in children is a major public health problem.. Epigenetic marks, such as microRNAs, could be one of the mechanisms that regulate the association maternal obesity with the development of metabolic ...
Robles Cedeño, René (Date of defense: 2016-07-19)
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system which has an unknown aetiology and an autoimmune mechanism. Two pathogenic processes, inflammation and neurodegeneration, converge causing a progressive ...
Camós Badia, Susanna (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)
The aim of this thesis was to identify transcriptional regulators involved in the modulation of ischaemia, as well as brain plasticity processes responsible for compensating the ischaemic lesions, in order to establish the ...
Moreno Navarrete, José María (Date of defense: 2011-06-20)
To gain insight in the relationship between innate immune system and metabolic disease, we aimed to investigate the effects of lactoferrin in obesity-related metabolic disturbances. Circulating lactoferrin concentration ...
Muñoz Montplet, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
The algorithm for calculating absorbed dose in external radiotherapy Acuros XB (AXB), based on the solution of the Boltzmann equation, has shown to achieve a higher level of accuracy than the preceding convolution/superposition ...
Prats Puig, Anna (Date of defense: 2012-05-17)
Adiponectin is a protein secreted by adipose tissue which possesses insulin-sensitivity and anti-atherosclerotic properties. In this work, we will study if high molecular weight adiponectin is a key molecule in the association ...
Andrés Navarro, Omar (Date of defense: 2020-09-25)
The protocol followed in this thesis is to indicate the EAC according to the NASCET criteria. Closure of the arteriotomy with patch. The criteria to indicate this have been based on an original method, which takes into ...
Valenzuela Leal, Helen (Date of defense: 2019-04-09)
The thickness of epicartic fat can be directly measured by transthoracic echocardiography. Epicartic fat has recently been associated with the onset of atrial fibrillation (AF). In this work we will analyze the relationship ...
Osiniri Kippes, Inés (Date of defense: 2015-07-15)
La evidencia científica sugiere que la enfermedad arteriosclerótica tiene su origen en edades tempranas de la vida y su progresión está determinada por la suma de factores de riesgo cardiovascular, como la obesidad o el ...
Rodríguez Mier, Fernando Avelino (Date of defense: 2014-03-14)
The "Macular Projector" MAP, designed by us, is so effective, reliable and predictive as the Guyton-Minkowski PAMÒ and Retinometer Heine Lambda 100 in the assessment of potential visual acuity. The PAM has the advantage, ...
Blanco Silvente, Lídia (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)
The evidence available in the medical literature is conclusive that the risk-benefit relationship of the current medications for Alzheimer's disease is not favourable. This risk-benefit relationship is not significantly ...
Martínez-Calcerrada, José María (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)
Despite notable advances in health promotion over the past decades, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, with obesity being a rising contributor of it. Cardiovascular risk factors appear in ...
Espín Sánchez, Rufina (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
Introduction: Hypertension is the common cardiovascular risk factor and affects 20 to 50% of the population. Treatment, with drugs or not, involves improving lifestyle. Olive leaf extract has traditionally been taken to ...
Ortega Delgado, Francisco José (Date of defense: 2012-06-18)
Obesity is one of the most important public health problems facing the world today. Gene expression studies applied to fat depots from obese subjects have provided important clues about the pathophysiology of adipose tissue. ...
Celarain Sanz, Naiara (Date of defense: 2023-06-26)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune and neurodegenerative disease characterized by the infiltration of autoreactive immune cells into the central nervous system that leads to axonal damage, ...
Vallverdú Prats, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an entity that groups different clinical forms of hereditable cardiac diseases that are associated to ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The main cases are characterized ...