Casas Masnou, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
Gene regulation mechanisms control the level of transcription of each gene into RNA and the combination of expressed genes determines cell identity. Gene regulation is maintained by epigenetic mechanisms ...
Martí Coma-Cros, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
Malaria is an infectious disease that affects nearly half of the population in 90 countries around the world. In 2017 it was estimated that there were 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths disproportionately ...
Obando Martínez, Ana Zuleima (Date of defense: 2016-05-19)
Heteromeric amino acid transporters (HATs) are the unique solute transporters known to be composed of two subunits linked by a disulphide bridge. The heavy subunit (4F2hc or rBAT), a type II membrane ...
Meca-Cortés, Oscar (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
The transcription factor SOX2 is a key determinant of stem cell properties, also involved in the initiation, maintenance and progression of several human cancers. By studying the in ...
Capera Aragonés, Jesusa (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Kv1.3 is a voltage-gated potassium channel mainly expressed at the plasma membrane and at the inner mitochondrial membrane of different cell types. A dual role for the channel has been suggested: Plasma ...
Ruiz Cánovas, Eugenia (Date of defense: 2018-12-10)
Compound F has been reported to possess important antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti- diabetic and anti-cancer effects, among other interesting properties. Although Compound F has been extensively ...
Henryka Gawrzak, Sylwia (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and remains the second leading cause of death among women in Europe and United States. In this malignancy, metastasis remains to be an incurable ...
López Fauqued, Marta (Date of defense: 2010-06-22)
Malignant melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer with no effective therapeutic treatment in its metastatic stages. RAS and PI3K pathways have been shown to play a critical role in melanoma development ...
Arafaty, Nazanin (Date of defense: 2021-04-30)
The topic of this thesis is to investigate the polyamine metabolism during defense response in Arabidopsis thaliana. I mainly focused on the alteration of polyamine metabolism in different layers of ...
Aguilar Recarte, David (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a multifactorial disease that comprises metabolic defects in multiple organs. Several studies have shown that the presence of a chronic low-state inflammatory process induces ...