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Seuma Areñas, Mireia (Date of defense: 2023-01-18)
[eng] Proteins can adopt multiple conformations and material states, from soluble states to self- assemblies, such as liquid condensates or amyloids. Protein aggregation has been associated with many human diseases but how ...
Riera Armengol, Pau (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
El càncer colorectal (CCR) és una neoplàsia molt freqüent que causa una elevada mortalitat arreu del món. Els fàrmacs més utilitzats en el seu maneig són quimioteràpics (fluoropirimidines, oxaliplatí i irinotecan), agents ...
Corpas Expósito, Rubén (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
El aumento de la esperanza de vida poblacional que ha tenido lugar en las últimas décadas, previsiblemente conducirá a un incremento de la incidencia de enfermedades asociadas con la edad, incluyendo la demencia. La principal ...
Ballester Servera, Carme (Date of defense: 2023-10-16)
[spa] La calcificación cardiovascular (CCV) afecta a arterias y válvulas comprometiendo su normal funcionamiento y aumentando el riesgo de sufrir accidentes cardiovasculares y de desarrollar hipertrofia cardíaca e insuficiencia ...
Ramírez Corpas, Lorena (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
[spa] Alrededor del 10% de los pacientes con cáncer colorrectal metastático (mCRC) presentan la mutación BRAF(V600E), mutación que está asociada a una peor respuesta al tratamiento estándar con agentes quimioterapéuticos ...
Avalos de León, Cindy Guadalupe (Date of defense: 2020-07-21)
Cada año, miles de personas fallecen a causa de enfermedades hepáticas en estado terminal, siendo la falta de injertos hepáticos un problema sin resolver en la práctica clínica. Para tratar de resolver esta grave situación ...
Bernat Peguera, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
La mayoría de los carcinomas escamosos de piel (cSCCs) se tratan con éxito mediante escisión quirúrgica. Sin embargo, el 5-8% de los casos desarrollan recurrencias, las cuales están asociadas a un crecimiento agresivo, ...
Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-07-18)
Cooking made humans evolve. Cooking modified our gastrointestinal system, reducing the gut size and energy expenditure for digestion, which enabled the appearance of a more energy-dependent brain. Cooking process have ...
Monaco, Paola (Date of defense: 2022-09-23)
[eng] Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most prevalent soft tissue sarcoma (STS) in children and adolescents. The Alveolar subtype (ARMS) is driven by PAX3-FOXO1, a fusion protein originated from a chromosomal translocation. ...
Burciaga Monge, Alma Delia (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Los esteroles son una familia de compuestos triterpénicos que se presentan en forma libre o conjugada, como ésteres, glicósidos y acilglicósidos de esteroles. Cada especie vegetal tiene su propio perfil cualitativo y ...
Marín-Valls, Roser (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
Biocatalysis gained importance in the latter half of the 20th century and its application in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries continues to expand nowadays. Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in a highly ...
Limón Magaña, David (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
anostructured supramolecular hydrogels and gold nanoparticles, as two kinds of nanomaterials, were synthsized, characterized and evaluated for their potential as drug delivery systems. Two bis-imidazolium cationic ...
Guercetti, Julian (Date of defense: 2023-10-25)
[eng] The current doctoral thesis titled “Microarray Strategies for Multiplexed Immunochemical Analysis” was carried out in the context of two research projects, expecting to develop multiplexed ligand-binding assays under ...
Antolin Fontes, Albert (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)
The mitochondrial Seryl-tRNA Synthetase (SerRS2) is a member of the class II tRNA synthetase family. The mature enzyme catalyses the ligation of serine to tRNASer in mitochondria. During the process of constructing a model ...
Calatayud Robert, Sara (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
Proteins are composed of domains, a well-defined region within a protein that constitutes a stable, independently folding, compact structural unit, and that usually performs a specific function. During protein evolution, ...
Gutierrez Prat, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-10-03)
Cells often need to respond to damaging internal and external stimuli. One of the pathways that is frequently activated by stress stimuli involves activation of the kinase p38alpha, which can phosphorylate different ...
Tatarski, Miloš (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
INTRODUCTION: For decades it was known that many species contain embryo specific linker histone H1 variants that replace the somatic H1 during early embryogenesis. This is especially important because the early embryo ...
Pérez Calm, Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-07-28)
[eng] This thesis addresses molecular segregation in perylene-based systems, including lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals and water-in-water emulsions. These systems offer several advantages compared to conventional ...
Magaña Rodríguez, José Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2017-02-09)
In this thesis, the phase behavior in water of a technical grade diglycerol-based surfactant (C41V) and a group of dyes (Quinaldine Red, Pyronin Y, N-Alkylthiacarbocyanines, Oxacarbocyanines, Pinacyanol and Alcian Blue) ...
Giraldo Clemente, Sandra (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
Les proteïnes motores s’encarreguen del transport intracel·lular de cargoes a través de fibres tubulars presents en el citosquelet mitjançant la hidròlisis del trifosfat d'adenosina (ATP) com a força motriu del moviment. ...