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Rovira i Rigau, Maria (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)
L’adenocarcinoma ductal pancreàtic (PDAC) és una neoplàsia molt agressiva a conseqüència de la seva elevada capacitat metastàtica i la gran resistència que presenta als tractaments convencionals de quimioteràpia i radioteràpia. ...
Casadó Anguera, Verònica (Date of defense: 2018-06-14)
Catecholamines, including dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE), are widely distributed in the body and constitute a class of conventional neurotransmitters and hormones that occupy key positions in the regulation of ...
Moure Ortega, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Tanto la infección por el virus VIH como el tratamiento antirretroviral se asocian con el desarrollo de alteraciones metabolicas relacionadas con la adiposidad, pudiendo íncluso desarrollar lipodistrofia. Estudios previos ...
Jordà Bordoy, Luis (Date of defense: 2024-02-06)
[eng] The understanding of proteins as dynamical entities rather than static structures marked a very significant advance in the interpretation of their functional role in life. The capacity of proteins to interact with ...
Cairó Calzada, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)
El teixit adipós marró (TAM) està format principalment per adipòcits marrons, la funció principal dels quals és el manteniment de la temperatura corporal de l’organisme a través de la termogènesi adaptativa. La capacitat ...
Nukala, Sarath Babu (Date of defense: 2019-05-23)
The vascular endothelium is one of the major targets of oxidative stress, playing an important role in the development of vascular-related disorders, such as atherosclerotic disease1. Oxidative stress increases the formation ...
Serrano Novillo, Clara (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
Voltage gated K+ channels (Kv) are transmembrane proteins that allow the pass-thorugh of potassium ions, regulating the electrochemical gradient of the cell membrane. This way, they modulate several physiological processes, ...
Carretero Paulet, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2003-04-11)
Los isoprenoides (o terpenoides) constituyen una vasta familia de compuestos de muy diversa naturaleza estructural y funcional presentes en todos los seres vivos. Los isoprenoides sintetizados por las plantas representan ...
Cano Crespo, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-06-26)
The wide variety of disorders associated with the malfunction of amino acid (AA) transporters reflect the relevant roles they fulfil in human physiology. Heteromeric AA transporters (HATs), one of the eleven families of ...
Zodda, Erika (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The endothelium plays a pivotal role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and emerging evidence indicates that pathological blood vessel responses and endothelial dysfunction are associated with metabolic ...
Baptista, Inês do Carmo Viegas (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Leukaemia is one of the types of cancer where treatment resistance is prevalent. Better understanding of leukemic cells metabolism opens possibilities for new therapeutic strategies and better prognosis stratification. ...
Casanovas Ferrero, Mireia (Date of defense: 2021-09-06)
Actualmente, entre el 30-40% de los medicamentos comercializados tienen como diana a un receptor acoplado a proteína G (GPCR). Además, la capacidad que tienen estos receptores para interaccionar físicamente entre ellos y ...
Viel Oliva, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-06-16)
Els nucleòsids són metabòlits imprescindibles per a la cèl·lula ja que són els precursors d’un gran nombre de biomolècules. Aquests nucleòsids poden ser sintetitzats per la cèl·lula o es poden recuperar del medi extracel·lular ...
Foguet Coll, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Metabolism is a hallmark of life and underlies most biological processes in both health and disease. For instance, dysregulation of liver metabolism underlies multifactorial disorders such as diabetes or obesity. Similarly, ...
Casadó Mora, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
El cáncer de colon representa entre el 10-12% de las enfermedades neoplásicas y es una de las causas principales de muerte por cáncer en los países occidentales. Fármacos como el irinotecan, inhibidor de la topoisomerasa ...
Castellanos Martínez, Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-03-22)
En la enfermedad de Huntington (HD), muchos síntomas están asociados con alteraciones en las funciones reguladas por la dopamina y el glutamato; una intervención directa sobre los receptores de dopamina D1 (D1R) pueden ...
Delgado Anglés, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2021-10-25)
Brown and beige adipose tissues are mediators of adaptive energy expenditure in mammals, in contrast with the energy storage role of white fat. Mitochondrial activity, including uncoupled respiration, and the release of ...
Pérez Olives, Catalina (Date of defense: 2023-11-17)
[eng] Adenosine and endocannabinoids are regulatory molecules that are present in all organ and physiological systems. They act via specific receptors belonging to the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily. There ...
Campderrós Traver, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
L’obesitat s’ha convertit en les últimes dècades en un greu problema per la salut pública arribant a ser una de les principals causes de morbiditat, incapacitació i mortalitat prematura. Un teixit que pot tenir un paper ...