Díez Tercero, Leire (Date of defense: 2021-06-08)
Bone is a complex and dynamic tissue that fulfills several critical functions such as protecting vital organs including the brain, heart and lungs; providing sites of attachment for muscles to allow ...
Celma Nos, Ferran (Date of defense: 2022-05-17)
Iron is a biometal involved in many physiological processes essential for life. Regulation of both systemic and cellular iron homeostasis is crucial for health. The IRP/IRE post-transcriptional regulatory ...
Farré Guasch, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2011-05-20)
ABSTRACT Background and Objective: Stem cells offer an interesting tool for tissue engineering, but the clinical applications are limited by donor site morbidity and low cell number upon harvest. Recent ...
Klementieva, Oxana (Date of defense: 2012-03-09)
La malaltia d’Alzheimer es caracteritza per l’acumulació de plaques extracel.lulars amiloides, formades pels anomenats pèptids amiloides (Aβ40). L’homeòstasi del coure (Cu) es veu afectada en l’etiologia ...
Gil Recio, Carlos (Date of defense: 2015-06-29)
The liver is the largest internal organ and an important regulator of homeostasis providing essential metabolic, exocrine and endocrine functions. Liver diseases result in high rates of morbidity and ...
Coronel-Banda, Mauricio Enrique (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)
BACKGROUND: Neither the oral mucosal perforators of the facial artery, nor their mucosal perforasomes they perfused, have been described. Septal perforation is a frequent complication of snorting ...
Carballar Ruiz, María de los Reyes (Date of defense: 2021-02-25)
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are considered the most deleterious lesions of DNA and they are repaired by means of two main mechanisms: homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous endjoining ...
Bosch Canals, Begoña María (Date of defense: 2019-07-16)
Nowadays, there are approximately 10 million people worldwide with visual impairment due to corneal diseases. Currently, the main therapeutic solution is the transplant of a donor's cornea. The great ...
Pérez - Martín, Hipólito (Date of defense: 2023-11-17)
El tabaquismo es reconocido a nivel global como un factor de riesgo significativo para la salud pública y una de las principales causas de muertes prevenibles. España ha implementado políticas de control ...
Galcerán Gui, Josep-Maria (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a fast-growing condition, highly underdiagnosed and not optimally managed. Nephrology knowledge is quite variable among Primary Care physicians (PCPs) and patients tend ...