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Tena Morraja, Paula (Date of defense: 2024-07-19)
[spa] La mayor parte del gasto energético en el cerebro se utiliza en procesos relacionados con la transmisión sináptica. La actividad sináptica provoca adaptaciones estructurales y funcionales en las que se potencian las ...
Ruiz Hernández, Alberto (Date of defense: 2024-07-12)
[eng] The sustainability concerns, increasing cost, and insufficient availability of fish oil associated to aquaculture growth, have led to the search of sustainable alternatives in aquafeeds. However, fish oil replacement ...
Moreira Reis, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
[spa] INTRODUCCIÓN: La danza aeróbica (AD) es una modalidad de ejercicio de las más practicadas en el mundo que ha demostrado múltiples beneficios en la salud de aquellas personas que la practican, especialmente en la ...
Wells Cembrano, Karen Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
[eng] The use of in vitro models in biomedical research offers an invaluable tool for exploring biological processes of health and disease. While animal models remain highly informative and necessary to ensure clinical ...
Sans de San Nicolàs, Lídia (Date of defense: 2023-10-26)
[eng] Atopic dermatitis is the most common chronic immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease affecting up to 20% of children and 10% of adults. The complex pathophysiology of the disease comprises genetic susceptibility, ...
Ortega Gascó, Alba (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
[eng] The Central Nervous System (NS) is a fascinating and complex structure formed by millions of interconnected neurons that facilitate cognitive tasks such as memory and learning. The development and maintenance of this ...
Sala Jarque, Júlia (Date of defense: 2023-02-01)
[eng] Abnormal folding, hyperphosphorylation, aggregation, and subsequent deposition of the microtubule-associated protein tau, is the hallmark of a group of devastating neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, ...
Navarro Rojas, Sandra Ximena (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
[spa] El sistema de melanocortinas es probablemente uno de los sistemas hormonales más complejos involucrados en la regulación de la ingesta de alimentos y la homeostasis energética. Las melanocortinas son péptidos derivados ...
Sánchez Domínguez, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
[eng] The central nervous system represents a huge network architecture where intercellular communication governs and coordinates the proper function of the brain. Regulated secretion of neuropeptides and growth factors ...
Font Díaz, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Nuclear receptors are a superfamily of ligand-dependent transcription factors that are involved in numerous biological processes in homeostasis and disease. Liver X receptors (LXRs) are members of the nuclear receptors ...
Dávila Bouziguet, Eva (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
The neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease are senile plaques, extracellular deposits of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), and neurofibrillary tangles, intracellular aggregates of hyperphosphorylated Tau protein (P-Tau). ...
Castro Ruíz, Diana (Date of defense: 2022-05-16)
El pescado es una de las principales fuentes de proteínas para la población de la cuenca amazónica, la cual posee la mayor biodiversidad de peces del mundo. La acuicultura se ha desarrollado de manera constante en la región ...
Mesquida Veny, Francina (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are a major cause of paralysis in young adults. In this type of injuries recovery is impaired as adult central nervous system (CNS) axons fail to regenerate. This results from both a loss of ...
Ramiro-Pareta, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
The pleiotropic WT1 transcription factor (WT1) was first discovered in renal tumours. It contains four zinc-finger motifs at the C-terminus which are important for DNA binding to activate gene expression and is also involved ...
Beleza, Jorge (Date of defense: 2022-04-05)
Maternal environmental exposure during gestational period may affect offspring risk for chronic diseases. Accordingly, maternal metabolic disturbances induced by high-fat high-sucrose (HFHS) diets can have a negative impact ...
Ortiz Prado, Esteban (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)
ANTECEDENTES: A nivel planetario, al menos 200 millones de personas a nivel mundial residen en poblaciones ubicadas a grandes alturas. Vivir o visitar regiones montañosas puede provocar cambios fisiológicos significativos ...
López Mengual, Ana (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
La migración celular adquiere especial relevancia durante el desarrollo embrionario y la regeneración tisular. Durante el desarrollo del individuo adulto, las células se multiplican, se diferencian y maduran, debiéndose ...
Santocildes Martinez, Garoa (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Los trastornos músculo-esqueléticos son una de las principales causas de necesidad de rehabilitación en el mundo. En el ámbito deportivo, las lesiones del sistema musculo- esquelético representan entre el 10-55% del total ...
Letelier Torres, Nicole Alejandra (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
Obesity is nowadays considered a pandemic disease, and its incidence correlates with the concomitant increase of a set of associated comorbidities, including T2D, cardiovascular diseases, fatty liver disease, among others, ...
Perelló Amorós, Miquel (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)
With the most absolute purpose of understanding what the “simple” concept of “growth regulation” implies, the present thesis is a compilation of original works that aims to deepen in how the growth and metabolism of fish, ...