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Botteri, Gaia (Date of defense: 2018-03-14)
Diabetes represents one of the biggest health challenges of the 21st century. Insulin resistance is the primary defect in the most common form of diabetes, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), and is defined as a failure in the ...
Ettcheto Arriola, Miren (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
La enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA) es el tipo de demencia progresiva más común. En base al incremento de la prevalencia esperada, es considera la epidemia del siglo XXI. En consecuencia, surge una gran necesidad de encontrar ...
Abás Prades, Sònia (Date of defense: 2018-05-31)
The distinctive reactivity of isocyanides has been recognised as an advantageous characteristic for the formation of heterocyclic compounds. In the present manuscript new synthetic possibilities are explored involving the ...
Pérez Janer, Ferran (Date of defense: 2018-06-01)
Among transition metals used in organic chemistry, palladium has greatly contributed to the development of modern organic synthesis. This thesis is focused on the development of novel and efficient methodologies for the ...
Are, Celeste (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
El presente trabajo se centra en los alcaloides del grupo de las madangaminas, un pequeño grupo de alcaloides diaminopentacíclicos, aislados de esponjas marinas pertenecientes al orden Haplosclerida y derivados biogenéticamente ...
Amirthalingam, Ezhil (Date of defense: 2018-10-01)
This thesis has its main focus on developing multi-functional nanomaterials, that we called nano- and microtools through two different approaches, top-down to provide support and bottom up to give functionality to prepare ...
Pont Masanet, Caterina (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and one of the most important health-care problems in the world, due to its high prevalence and unaffordable personal and economic impact. Moreover, current ...
Duart Castells, Leticia (Date of defense: 2020-02-25)
Drugs of abuse represent a global problem not only at a health level, but also at a social and economic extent. Recently, a tidal wave of new emerging psychoactive substances has completely modified the illicit drug market, ...
Amenta, Arianna (Date of defense: 2020-03-27)
Transition metal-catalyzed intramolecular C–H insertions of diazo compounds represent one of the most elegant and versatile methods in organic synthesis for the construction of carbocyclic and heterocyclic frameworks. ...
Urbina Teixidor, Aina (Date of defense: 2020-06-19)
La calispongiolida es un macrólido aislado en el año 2013 a partir de un extracto metanólico de la esponja Callyspongia sp. recogida en la costa de Indonesia. Este producto natural posee una potente actividad citotóxica y ...
Lizano Gispert, Enric (Date of defense: 2020-07-24)
This doctoral thesis is focused on the investigation and development of new compounds directed to different cancer and tropical diseases targets. Drug resistance, as well in cancer as in tropical diseases, is a hurdle which ...
Puigoriol Illamola, Dolors (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
The world is facing an unprecedented situation: soon the number of people over 60 years old will exceed the number of children, and more people at extreme old age than ever before. This is due to medical advances that have ...
Codony Gisbert, Sandra (Date of defense: 2020-09-17)
Epoxieicosatrienoic acids acids (EETs) are endogenous chemical mediators derived from arachidonic acid that show anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, analgesic, angiogenic and antiatherosclerotic effects. Soluble epoxide ...
Izquierdo Cadenas, Vanesa (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)
Factores ambientales como el ejercicio, el estrés o la dieta contribuyen a la patogénesis de enfermedades asociadas al deterioro cognitivo y al envejecimiento, modulando mecanismos de expresión génica que son susceptibles ...
Aguilar Recarte, David (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a multifactorial disease that comprises metabolic defects in multiple organs. Several studies have shown that the presence of a chronic low-state inflammatory process induces the development of ...
Vasilopoulou, Foteini (Date of defense: 2021-09-21)
The identification of imidazoline receptors (IR) as a novel class of receptors has posed manifold research questions regarding their pharmacological and potential therapeutic properties. Among them, I2-IR receptors are ...
Velázquez Chávez, Ana Magdalena (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)
La enfermedad del hígado graso no alcohólico es una patología sin tratamiento farmacológico específico que posee una alta prevalencia a nivel mundial, cuya etapa inicial se caracteriza por la esteatosis hepática simple. ...
Rodríguez Arévalo, Sergio (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
La síntesis de compuestos orgánicos heterocíclicos permite acceder a un amplio arsenal de compuestos con potencial actividad farmacológica. El presente manuscrito se enmarca en el campo de la química farmacéutica, desarrollando ...
Piccichè, Miriam (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
Los alcaloides decahidroquinolínicos (DHQs) representan un pequeño grupo de productos naturales aislados mayoritariamente de fuentes animales, ya sean de origen terrestre o de origen marino, y en menor medida de fuentes ...
Codony Soler, Xavier (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
The sigma-1 receptor is a chaperone that is primarily expressed in the mitochondria-associated endoplasmic reticulum (MAM). It was cloned years ago from different tissues of various species and its structure ...