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Andrés Bilbé, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-11-13)
[cat] TRESK (K2P18.1) és un canal de potassi de fuga que s’expressa en algunes subpoblacions de neurones sensorials, on modula el potencial de membrana en repòs, la descàrrega de potencial d’acció i l’excitabilitat neuronal. ...
Duran Güell, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-04-12)
[eng] Albumin exerts pleiotropic actions beyond its oncotic power, which include binding, transport and detoxification of endogenous and exogenous molecules, antioxidant activity and the modulation of immune and inflammatory ...
Solsona i Vilarrasa, Estel (Date of defense: 2021-03-22)
[eng] Cholesterol accumulation in mitochondrial membranes is a common feature of various chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's as well as liver diseases. Studies prior to this doctoral ...
Proaño Pérez, Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2022-11-30)
[eng] KIT (CD117) is a tyrosine kinase receptor expressed in hematopoietic progenitors, melanocytes, germ cells, mast cells, and interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) of the digestive tract. KIT gain-of-function mutations have ...
Duch Gili, Paula (Date of defense: 2022-03-14)
Increased expression of TIMP-1 is associated with poor prognosis in virtually all cancer types, including lung cancer. However, how TIMP-1 is regulated in lung cancer and how it drives tumor progression is poorly defined. ...
Morales Paytuví, Frederic (Date of defense: 2022-02-04)
The following sections of the thesis are divided in two parts corresponding with the two projects conducted, whose objectives are stated below. 1. Caveolin in the endoplasmic reticulum During the last years, the ...
Durán Rodríguez, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)
Partint dels resultats previs obtinguts per aquest grup d’investigació, es planteja la següent hipòtesi de treball: “La proteïna p27 és un regulador de la via de Notch. Aquesta regulació es realitzaria, principalment, ...
Rodríguez Urgellés, Ened (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, psychiatric, and cognitive manifestations. The disease is caused by an unstable expansion of the CAG trinucleotide ...
Martin Ramos, Edgar (Date of defense: 2021-04-26)
Les proteïnes de la família de les CaM quinases (CAMK en anglès), l’activitat de les quals és dependent del complex calci-calmodulina, estan implicada en funcions cel·lulars com la regulació de l’expressió gènica, la ...
Barrachina Villalonga, Ferran (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
La infertilitat és un problema freqüent a escala mundial cada cop més comú. No obstant això, la manca de comprensió de la biologia reproductiva masculina i dels mecanismes moleculars alterats en pacients infèrtils resulta ...
Soler-Ventura, Ada (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)
L’aplicació de tècniques d’alt rendiment, com la transcriptòmica i la proteòmica, en l’estudi de l’espermatozoide humà, ha permès obtenir grans avenços en la coneixença de la seva composició i funció normal, així com ...
Llanes Velasco, Julia (Date of defense: 2020-09-16)
A Schizosaccharomyces pombe, la citocinesi està mediada per l’assemblatge i la constricció de l’anell contràctil d’actomiosiona. Pertorbacions petites en aquesta estructura activen un conjunt de mecanismes de control que ...
Feu i Coll, Sònia (Date of defense: 2019-03-28)
This thesis investigates the mechanisms that are activated in response to replication stress induced with hydroxyurea, an agent that causes deoxyribonucleotides depletion and arrest cells in S phase, in the non-transformed ...
Domuro Soriano, Carla (Date of defense: 2019-11-04)
El nostre grup ha identificat prèviament diferents gens i programes transcripcionals regulats per la proteïna p27. En aquest treball ens centrem en el paper de la proteïna p27 en la regulació a nivell transcripcional de ...
Blanco Muñoz, Patricia (Date of defense: 2020-05-22)
El hígado es un órgano capaz de regenerarse. La regeneración hepática precisa de una activación organizada y secuencial de sucesos que conllevan a la recuperación de la masa hepática. Durante este proceso el hígado debe ...
Martín Flores, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Huntington's disease (HD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases that progress with the death of selective neuronal subpopulations. Neuronal dysfunction and death are consequence of multiple ...
Suelves Caballol, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-07-23)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare genetic disorder caused by an aberrant expansion of a CAG trinucleotide in the huntingtin gene (Htt). The neuropathology of the disease is characterized by progressive neuronal dysfunction ...
López Guimet, Júlia (Date of defense: 2018-04-25)
The aorta is the main artery of the body, whose function is to collect the blood ejected by the heart and distribute it to all tissues. The elastic degree of the aortic wall necessary to withstand blood pressure is mainly ...
Alvarez Periel, Elena (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an autosomic mutation on the Huntingtin (HTT) coding gene. HD is mainly characterized by the appearance of motor symptoms or choreas, which are associated ...
Simões, Inês Tadeu dos Anjos (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
Our goal in this doctoral thesis was to study the immunomodulatory effects of CD5 and CD6, two proteins expressed on the lymphocytes membrane. These two proteins belong to the Scavenger Receptors Cystein- Rich superfamily, ...