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    Desarrollos metodológicos en la exploración de la especie bioactiva en fármacos: Búsqueda de agentes antimaláricos 

    Viayna Gaza, Antonio (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)

    La presente tesis doctoral se divide, de forma general, en dos principales vertientes, una de carácter metodológica y otra de carácter aplicada. La primera de ellas se ha focalizado en la caracterización de la especie ...

    Describing the role of the 40S-LARP1 complex in the synthesis of ribosomal proteins driven by oncogenic MYC 

    Iannizzotto, Flavia (Date of defense: 2023-12-01)

    [eng] MYC dysregulation is the most common alteration in cancers, driving several cellular processes that cooperatively promote aberrant cell growth and proliferation. Among them, the induction of protein synthesis has ...

    Descripción de un nuevo tipo de vesícula de membrana externa en bacterias gramnegativas: implicaciones en el contenido de DNA y RNA 

    Pérez Cruz, Carla (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)

    En la presente Tesis Doctoral se presenta la descripción y caracterización de un nuevo tipo de vesícula de membrana externa (MV) en bacterias gramnegativas, hallada tanto en cepas ambientales como en cepas patógenas. Para ...

    Descubrimiento de fármacos contra la enfermedad de Alzheimer basados en la estabilidad de la transtiretina 

    Cotrina Celis, Ellen Yadira (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)

    La enfermedad de Alzheimer es la principal causa de demencia. Es una enfermedad neurodegenerativa para la cual no existe tratamiento curativo. La transtiretina (TTR) es una proteína tetramérica conocida por su función ...

    Desenvolupament i recerca de formulacions per a vacunes veterinàries 

    Pi i Boleda, Berta (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)

    INTRODUCCIÓ: Aquesta tesi doctoral està inclosa dins del Pla de Doctorats Industrials de la Generalitat de Catalunya i s’ha realitzat conjuntament entre la Universitat de Barcelona i una empresa veterinària privada: ...

    Desenvolupament, caracterització i avaluació d’una nova forma farmacèutica basada en micro-comprimits d’alliberació modificada 

    Ruiz Xivillé, Núria (Date of defense: 2019-10-07)

    El metilfenidat HCl (MPH) és un fàrmac clàssic per al tractament del TDAH en nens a partir dels 6 anys, quan altres mesures resulten insuficients. Aquest trastorn es manifesta principalment durant la infància i l’adolescència ...

    Design and characterization of topical ketorolac tromethamine formulations 

    El Moussaoui El Masnaoui, Salima (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)

    [eng] Pain and inflammation are the most common and recurrent side effects after surgery and, understandably, the patient's most feared, affecting treatment adherence. The present work aims to characterize in vitro, ex ...

    Design and Evaluation of Enzyme-Powered Nanobots for Crossing Biological Barriers and Treating Cancer 

    Serra i Casablancas, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2024-11-04)

    [eng] The field of nanomedicine has garnered increasing clinical interest over the past few decades, leading to the approval of numerous products, particularly in oncology. This is due to their ability to encapsulate and ...

    Design and synthesis of engineered peptides to target undruggable PPIs: from in silico to in vitro studies 

    Rivas Santos, Pep (Date of defense: 2019-12-10)

    Major unsolved diseases such as Cancer, cardiopathies or neurodegenerative disorders are frequently related with the malunction of complex protein networks. These networks are integrated by the interaction of multiple ...

    Design and synthesis of new potentially inhibitors of PCSK9 and KRAS proteins 

    Vilaplana Saiz, Marta (Date of defense: 2021-01-22)

    This thesis shows the research carried out on two specific diseases: familial hypercholesterolemia, which is included within the cardiovascular diseases group, and cancer. These diseases are the major cause of deaths in ...

    Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel molecules with the capacity of inducing the degradation of different proteins by direct signaling to the proteasome 

    Alqahtani, Abdulateef (Date of defense: 2023-10-25)

    [eng] In 2001, the initial hypothesis of targeted protein degradation (TPD) was born to announce the launching of a new era of therapeutics development not by inhibiting a component of ubiquitin-proteasome system as small ...

    Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of photoswitchable molecules targeting G protein-coupled receptors in retina 

    González Díez, Aleix (Date of defense: 2023-07-24)

    [eng] G protein-coupled-receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of membrane proteins and mediate important cellular responses. Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlu) belong to the Glutamate family/Class C GPCR. These ...

    Determinants de pèrdua de pes en persones amb obesitat intervingudes amb tècniques bariàtriques endoscòpiques. Desenvolupament i validació d’un nou qüestionari curt d’hàbits saludables d’alimentació i d’activitat física 

    Miranda Peñarroya, Maria Gemma (Date of defense: 2022-11-28)

    [cat] Les teràpies endoscòpiques bariàtriques (TEB) són estratègies prometedores per al tractament de l'obesitat. No obstant això, hi ha una gran variabilitat en la pèrdua de pes i els individus sovint recuperen el pes ...

    Development and application of in-vitro assays for the study of the biological activity of pharmaceutical products 

    Cañellas Santos, Mariona (Date of defense: 2022-11-03)

    [eng] This industrial Ph.D. thesis aimed to illustrate the presence of the cell-based bioassays throughout the whole life of a drug product and to demonstrate its importance for a complete characterization of a pharmaceutical ...

    Development and applications of photoswitchable ligands for G protein-coupled receptors 

    Sortino, Rosalba (Date of defense: 2023-10-18)

    [eng] G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) modulate diverse cellular responses to the majority of neurotransmitters and hormones within the human body. They exhibit much structural and functional diversity and are responsive ...

    Development and characterization of in vivo models for Photopharmacology 

    Gomila Juaneda, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)

    The main aim of this thesis is setting up and using in vivo screening techniques to identify and characterize new photopharmacological compounds targeting endogenous proteins. In order to achieve that aim, the thesis ...

    Development and characterization of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) as a vehicle of biomolecules 

    Bustos Araya, Marta Eduviges (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)

    [eng] The interest of this work was to manufacture solid lipid nanoparticles that serve as a vehicle for biomolecules, specifically Chondroitin sulfate and pEGFP plasmid DNA. In the experimental part, the reagents and ...

    Development of a novel CPT1 enzymatic assay for drug screening. Synthesis and evaluation of UB006 derivatives and flavonoids’ effect on lipid 

    Reina i Aibar, Marc (Date of defense: 2024-11-22)

    [eng] Lipid metabolism (biosynthesis, storage, and mobilization of lipids within an organism) is a very important aspect of energy homeostasis and plays an essential. Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease characterized ...

    Development of crystallographic methods for phasing highly modulated macromolecular structures 

    Caballero Muñoz, Iracema (Date of defense: 2021-03-26)

    Pathologies that result in highly modulated intensities in macromolecular crystal structures pose a challenge for structure solution. To address this issue two studies have been performed: a theoretical study of one of ...

    Dietary (poly)phenols intake and cardiometabolic health in adolescents from Spain 

    Laveriano Santos, Emily Pilar (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)

    [eng] The rising of cardiometabolic risk factors like obesity, higher blood pressure, and alteration in the metabolism of lipids and glucose during adolescence increase the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular ...