Estudio teórico de formas inusuales y modificadas de los ácidos nucleicos 

    Faustino Pló, Ignacio (Fecha de defensa: 2013-10-23)

    1) Estudio teórico de nucleobases modificadas. Las modificaciones químicas de ácidos nucleicos tienen una amplia variedad de aplicaciones tanto en clínica, utilizadas como agentes antisentido, así como en el estudio ...

    Estudio topológico del ADN nucleosomal y su paradoja del número de enlace 

    Segura Martinez, Joana (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-02)

    El empaquetamiento del ADN en fibras de cromatina implica una gran cantidad de deformaciones geométricas de la doble hélice (enrollamiento y superenrollamiento del ADN) y la formación de una jerarquía de asas o dominios ...

    Estudios genéticos masivos en el ictus isquémico: factores de riesgo y pronóstico 

    Torres Águila, Nuria Paz (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-11)

    El ictus es una enfermedad compleja que afecta al cerebro y al sistema vascular. Esta enfermedad tiene una alta mortalidad, siendo la segunda causa de muerte a nivel mundial y la primera causa de discapacidad en adultos ...

    Estudis filogenètics i filogeogràfics de la tribu Cardueae i el gènere Euphorbia 

    Barres González, Laia (Fecha de defensa: 2013-04-05)

    La tesi doctoral té com a eixos vertebradors la sistemàtica molecular, la biogeografia i la filogeografia molecular. S’han seleccionat dos grups de plantes per les interessants qüestions que presenten per resoldre i perquè ...

    Evaluación de ensayos de alta sensibilidad para mejorar la identificación y el seguimiento de individuos con síndromes de cáncer hereditario asociados a deficiencia de reparación de errores de apareamiento 

    Canet Hermida, Julia (Fecha de defensa: 2023-09-14)

    [spa] Tanto las variantes patogénicas como las epimutaciones constitucionales en los genes del sistema de reparación de errores de apareamiento (mismatch repair, MMR), MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 y PMS2, son responsables de los ...

    Evaluación de la vulnerabilidad y del estado de conservación de ecosistemas marinos bentónicos especialmente productivos del Mediterráneo frente al impacto de la pesca de arrastre, para impulsar su correcta gestión 

    Garcia de Vinuesa Gutiérrez, Alfredo (Fecha de defensa: 2021-01-29)

    En el mar Mediterráneo existen hábitats especialmente productivos como los fondos de maërl y de agregación de crinoideos, que son explotados en la actualidad por la flota de arrastre. Esta actividad supone un impacto que ...

    Evaluating protein folding predictions and functional annotations: A comprehensive analysis of recent advancements in the protein structural field 

    Ruiz Serra, Victoria Isabel (Fecha de defensa: 2023-11-08)

    [eng] Proteins are fundamental building blocks of life, and understanding their structure and function is crucial for many fields of science, from drug discovery to bioengineering. Traditional experimental methods for ...

    Evaluation of immunebiomarkers in Lung Cancer 

    da Rocha, Pedro Filipe Simões (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-25)

    [eng] Treatment landscape in early-stage NSCLC is rapidly changing after approval of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings, respectively. However, biomarkers for patient selection, to predict response ...

    Evolution and diversification of the geckos of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra Archipelago, compared to other mainland-island systems 

    Garcia Porta, Joan (Fecha de defensa: 2014-10-10)

    A major challenge in evolutionary biology is understanding the main drivers that underlie morphological and species diversity. Ecological opportunity—access to new or previously inaccessible niches—has been identified as ...

    Evolution, diversification and ecology of a clade of strictly subterranean beetles (Troglocharinus, Family Leiodidae) 

    Rizzo, Valeria (Fecha de defensa: 2015-10-08)

    The general aim of this dissertation is to investigate the evolution, the diversification and some ecological traits of the species of the strictly subterranean genus Troglocharinus Reitter, 1908. The genus Troglocharinus ...

    Evolutionary history of two Iberian Soricomorpha: genomics, phyligeography and dispersal patterns = Historia evolutiva de dos soricomorfos ibéricos genómica, filogeografía y patrones de dispersión 

    Querejeta Coma, Marina (Fecha de defensa: 2017-07-21)

    The study of intraspecific diversity is essential in ecology and evolution as they reveal fine-scale patterns and it is crucial in conservation planning. The main aim of this thesis is to study the evolutionary history of ...

    Evolutionay demography of the Balearic Wall lizard (Podarcis lilfordi) = La demografia evolutiva de la Sargantana Balear (Podarcis lilfordi) 

    Rotger Vallespir, Andreu (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-30)

    Many topics in ecology and evolution are currently being studied under the framework of eco- evolutionary dynamics that is to say integrating genetic, ecological and demographic data. Here, I have focused my investigations ...

    Expansion of a Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor preclinical platform and its application in a high-throughput screening strategy to identify novel drug treatments 

    Creus Bachiller, Edgar (Fecha de defensa: 2024-03-13)

    [eng] Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors (MPNSTs) are aggressive soft-tissue sarcomas. They usually appear in the clinical context of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), however, they also occur at a low frequency in the ...

    Factors implicats a l’estructura de l’heterocromatina constitutiva pericèntrica 

    González Nieto, Jèssica (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-23)

    La cromatina és una estructura nucleoproteïca dinàmica i jeràrquicament organitzada dins del nucli cel·lular. Segons la seva funcionalitat, la cromatina es pot classificar en dos tipus de regions: l’eucromatina, també ...

    Femoral bone mineral density and rectus femoris phenotype as sarcopenia indicators after a pulmonary rehabilitation protocol in patients with chronic respiratory disease 

    Alibakhshi, Esmaeil (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-13)

    INTRODUCTION: Patients with chronic respiratory disease (CRDs) have a disorder in muscle structure and function, but their function increases with physical progress and decreases the risk of general and muscular weakness. ...

    Fibroblastic SNAIL1 induces a metastasis-permisive tumor stroma by regulating fibronectin alternative splicing 

    Franco Valls, Héctor (Fecha de defensa: 2022-05-26)

    SNAIL1 is a transcription factor with roles in repression of epithelial genes and enhancement of mesenchymal genes. As such, it plays a key role in Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and in fibroblast activation into ...

    Fish and mammalian glut4 traffic characteristics: an evolutionary perspective on the importance of glut4 protein motifs for trafficking 

    Carvalho Simoes, Francisco Manuel de (Fecha de defensa: 2018-07-06)

    Glucose transporters (GLUTs) are extremely important for glucose metabolism. Glucose transporters uptake glucose from blood stream into the cells where it can be metabolized. Among the glucose transporters family, GLUT4, ...

    From the discovery of epistatic events in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus to the study of related gene expression regulatory variation 

    Alonso Parrilla, Lorena (Fecha de defensa: 2023-01-16)

    [eng] One of the major and most challenging goals of Biomedicine during the last centuries has been the study of the human biological mechanisms, and its relation with traits and diseases. Particularly, in the case of ...

    Function of the histone demethylase PHF8 in neural progenitor cells and glial differentiation 

    Iacobucci, Simona (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-18)

    Taking into consideration the current knowledge about the subjects treated, several goals were proposed for this PhD thesis in order to further understand PHF8 function in both astrocytes and neural stem cells biology. To ...

    Functional characterization of single amino acid variants 

    López Ferrando, Víctor (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-11)

    Single amino acid variants (SAVs) are one of the main causes of Mendelian disorders, and play an important role in the development of many complex diseases. At the same time, they are the most common kind of variation ...