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Serrano Santacruz, Inmaculada (Date of defense: 2022-06-23)
[cat] Les característiques immunomoduladores induïdes per la proteïna plasmàtica humana C4BP(β-) en el model in vitro de Mo-DCs inflamatòries li confereixen potencial terapèutic per al restabliment de la tolerància ...
Pell Vidal, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-11-19)
Obesity is reaching pandemic dimensions and is an established instigator of many diseases, such as non alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most prevalent liver disease worldwide. Most studies in this regard have been focused ...
Acevedo Lipes, Andrea Milena (Date of defense: 2021-03-09)
Clinical pathologists identify visually many morphological features to characterize the different normal cells, as well as the abnormal cell types whose presence in peripheral blood is the evidence of serious diseases. ...
Chivite Araiz, Íñigo (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)
Blood vessels distribute nutrients and oxygen to every single cell in the body. Endothelial cells define the vessel wall, and thus they are ideally located to crucially modulate nutrient availability and act as metabolic ...
Casadó Llombart, Sergi (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
The immune system comprises cellular and humoral components that protect the organism against external and internal aggressions, such as pathogens and cancer. Therefore, it can distinguish healthy, self structures from ...
Juárez-Escoto, Elena (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
[spa] La enfermedad de Parkinson (EP) es la segunda enfermedad neurodegenerativa más común, afectando al 1 % de la población de más de 60 años. La EP se caracteriza por síntomas motores como el temblor en reposo, la ...
Poblador Bonet, Francesc (Date of defense: 2022-12-22)
[spa] Los virus de ADN de gran tamaño, como son los herpesvirus, contienen una gran cantidad de material genético aun sin caracterizar. Estos virus han desarrollado múltiples estrategias que les permiten evadir la acción ...
Marín Llauradó, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2022-01-27)
GENERAL AIM: The general aim of this thesis is to understand how mechanical stress depends on pressure, size and shape in fluid-filled curved epithelial sheets. SPECIFIC AIMS: This general aim can be divided ...
Juárez Flores, Diana Luz (Date of defense: 2019-07-24)
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and the most common movement disorder in the world population. In most cases its aetiology is still unknown, however, mitochondrial alterations ...
Dubreuil Vall, Laura (Date of defense: 2020-10-28)
[eng] Executive function is defined as a subset of high-order cognitive functions (including working memory, inhibition, initiation and monitoring) that sustain adaptive goal-directed behavior and thought, and that are ...
Blanco-Cabra, Núria (Date of defense: 2021-04-16)
Les infeccions bacterianes han esdevingut un greu problema a escala mundial per culpa del mal ús que hom ha fet dels antibiòtics. L’adquisició de resistències als antimicrobians s’ha accelerat i cada cop hi ha més bacteris ...
Ochoa Alcalá, Andrea (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)
[spa] El citoesqueleto de actina es un componente esencial de las células eucariotas que tiene un importante papel en muchas funciones biológicas básicas como el mantenimiento de la morfología, la migración, el tráfico ...
Garcia Moreno, Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)
[cat] HIPÒTESI: Els pacients d’AR presenten diferents tipus d’autoanticossos contra proteïnes/pèptids modificats (AMPA) que són útils com a biomarcadors serològics en el diagnòstic de la malaltia. No obstant, el diagnòstic ...
Quiroga Álvarez, Xarxa (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)
Five years ago, I started walking this path that now seems like an entire life. Although everyone around tried to explain how this would feel, none of their explanations could have match what it has been in the end. And ...
Ciscar García, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-10-03)
[spa] Durante el proyecto de tesis se han realizado dos proyectos: Por un lado, se ha investigado la biología de la vía de señalización de RANK en adenocarcinomas de mama humanos. Además, se han investigado las implicaciones ...
Viswandha Venkata Naga Sai, Srivatsava (Date of defense: 2024-03-07)
[eng] “Doing the right thing, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose”. This isn’t a shoddy attempt at virtue signalling by invoking Aristotle. It rather is my philosophical ...
Garnica Caparrós, Josep (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)
[spa] Descripción de los eventos transcriptómicos y epigenéticos que tienen lugar en la diferenciación de TFH a TR1 mediada por el tratamiento con nanopartículas decoradas con complejos péptido-MHC, mediante estudios tanto ...
Alonso Martínez de Marañón, Josune (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
[spa] La terapia actual contra la mayoría de los cánceres está basada en el uso de agentes que dañan el ADN, como la quimioterapia o la radioterapia, que erradican las células tumorales proliferantes. Desafortunadamente, ...
Kobialka, Piotr (Date of defense: 2020-11-13)
[eng] Our knowledge on the molecular basis behind physiological angiogenesis has significantly expanded in the last two decades. This progress also led to improvement in understanding of many vascular-related diseases in ...