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 ...
Zinna, Valentina Maria (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Circadian rhythms regulate tissue physiology throughout the day in response to environmental cues. The primary entraining cue for the mammalian circadian clock is light, which is perceived by the retina ...
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 ...
Banjer, Hamsa Jameel (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
Transportome alterations have been associated with oncogenesis. The loss of human Concentrative Nucleoside Transporter 1 (hCNT1) during carcinogenesis seems to be a relatively common event in tumors and ...
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 ...
Caballero Arredondo, Mariana (Date of defense: 2023-01-24)
[eng] This research aims to study the effect of supplementation with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and antioxidants in older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration or cataracts to contribute ...
Khorsandi, Danial (Date of defense: 2021-11-19)
Dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, described by intensive pruritus and eczematous lesions of skin. In most of the patients with Dermatitis, a long-lasting cycle of itch-scratch roots ...
Garrido Trigo, Alba (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
[eng] Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases that show perplexing heterogeneity which is poorly understood at a cellular level. We applied single-cell RNA sequencing ...
Marhuenda Muñoz, María (Date of defense: 2022-09-08)
[eng] The present dissertation aims at broadening current knowledge regarding the importance of bodily or tissue status of bioactive compounds that are highly abundant in the Mediterranean diet (carotenoids ...
Clua Villas, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-07-17)
[eng] G-quadruplexes are non-canonical DNA structures that appear in Guanine-rich oligonucleotides. Four Guanines interact through Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds forming a tetrad which is stabilized by metallic ...