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Vizárraga Revuelto, David (Date of defense: 2021-03-12)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae y Mycoplasma genitalium son dos patógenos humanos que infectan tejido pulmonar y urogenital respectivamente. El mecanismo principal para llevar a cabo la infección es a través de la adhesión a las ...
Morcillo Sánchez, Melisa (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Obesity is the most common metabolic disorder that have alarmingly increased all over the world in the last few decades. The hormone insulin is one of the major endocrine axis deregulated in obesity and will be the focus ...
Kundisová, Ivana (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)
Table olives are an important source of phenolic compounds, whose beneficial health effects have been widely demonstrated. Therefore, the present thesis aims to assess the different phenolic compounds in Arbequina table ...
Franco Ávila, Talía (Date of defense: 2021-11-16)
Las aceitunas son una fuente dietética importante de compuestos bioactivos, entre los que destacan los triterpenos pentacíclicos. A estos componentes se les ha atribuido importantes propiedades beneficiosas para ...
Diaz Garrido, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-11-17)
The gut microbiota establishes dynamic and complex interactions with the intestinal epithelium and the immune system. In this regard, commensal microbiota plays essential role in the development and maturation of the host ...
Bayod Giron, Carles (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
The nuclear receptors (NR) modulate gene transcription in a ligand-dependent manner throughout different mechanisms. A set of NR, including PPARγ and LXR, are important regulators of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism as ...
Aubets Gil, Eva (Date of defense: 2021-09-19)
This work is focused on the study of Polypurine Reverse Hoogsteen hairpins (PPRHs) as a gene silencing tool, and on the search of alternative methods for their delivery, including viral and non-viral vectors. PPRHs are ...
Jiménez Félix, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2021-01-11)
This thesis is centered on the study of PolyPurine Reverse Hoogsteen (PPRH) hairpins technology as a tool for both gene silencing and gene editing. PolyPurine Reverse Hoogsteen (PPRH) hairpins are nonmodified single-stranded ...
Moreno González, Rocío (Date of defense: 2020-06-22)
Los triterpenos pentacíclicos y polifenoles son compuestos bioactivos con propiedades saludables que se encuentran en plantas medicinales y comestibles, incluyendo Olea europaea L. En la tesis presentada se ha llevado a ...
Torres Castro, Paulina (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
El sistema inmunitario no es totalmente funcional en el momento del nacimiento, sino que va desarrollando su capacidad defensiva frente a patógenos durante las primeras etapas de vida. Esta inmadurez en la respuesta ...
Estruel Amades, Seila (Date of defense: 2019-07-12)
En els darrers anys, la influència de l’exercici físic intens i extenuant ha guanyat molt d’interès, per una banda, pels efectes perjudicials que pot causar tant al sistema immunitari innat com a l’adaptatiu, i per altra ...
Grases Pintó, Blanca (Date of defense: 2019-07-09)
Els nounats neixen amb un sistema immunitari immadur, que es desenvolupa durant les primeres etapes de la vida. Aquesta immaduresa és més acusada en nadons prematurs. La llet materna conté nombrosos factors bioactius, com ...
Bartrolí Comellas, Mariona (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Targeting cancer metastasis has gained considerable importance in the recent years when aiming to increase patients’ overall survival. In Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), the discovery of metastatic biomarkers and targets is ...
Almacellas i Canals, Eugènia (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Lysosomes are the primary degradative organelles in mammalian cells. Indeed, lysosome enzymatic cocktail allows the degradation of a vast repertoire of cellular material through different converging pathways including ...
Martínez Delgado, Paula (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
Mitosis is a process that ensure the correct distribution of the chromosomes between the two newly generated cells, is tightly regulated by two main processes, protein degradation controlled by the APC and protein ...
Augé Marí, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2018-07-05)
El terme cossos de poliglucosà (PGBs) fa referència a agregats complexos formats per polímers de glucosa que arriben a fer diàmetres de desenes de micròmetres. Aquestes estructures s’han observat en el sistema nerviós ...
Santa Bárbara Ruiz, Paula (Date of defense: 2017-07-28)
Countless environmental aggressors could damage the integrity of tissues and organs. In humans, the limited regenerative ability prevents often the recovery of injured tissues, but this is not the case of the fruit fly ...
Cañas Pacheco, María Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Las interacciones entre la microbiota y el huésped son complejas y dependen principalmente de factores secretados que pueden atravesar la capa de mucus y alcanzar el epitelio. Dentro de los factores secretados, las bacterias ...
Gaspar Condori, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-01-18)
Actualmente, uno de los principales objetivos en la acuicultura está dirigido a minimizar la cantidad de proteína en la dieta suministrada a los peces carnívoros en cultivo y reemplazarla, parcialmente, por carbohidratos ...
Fábrega Fernández, María José (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
Gut microbiota play a critical role in maintaining human intestinal homeostasis and host health. Bacterial extracellular vesicles are key players in bacteria-host communication as they allow delivery of effector molecules ...