Marin Guillen, Ines (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)
[eng] Cellular senescence is a response to stress and damage, ant it is known to activate innate immune cells. However, the mechanisms by which senescent cells interact with the adaptive arm of the ...
Ballesté Delpierre, Clara Celia (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
Infections due to Salmonella enterica are of great concern worldwide as they represent an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Resistance to antibiotics used to treat salmonellosis has emerged ...
Moles, Juan (Date of defense: 2016-09-23)
This thesis covers three important aspects of Antarctic heterobranchs: ecology, taxonomy, and systematics. The first section deals with ecological interactions of several nudibranchs. In Chapter 1, we ...
Rodríguez Monforte, Míriam (Date of defense: 2017-03-06)
Las enfermedades cardiometabólicas son la primera causa de muerte a nivel mundial. La prevención primaria de dichas enfermedades es el pilar fundamental para una salud óptima de los adultos, debiendo ...
Ribó Gené, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)
Childhood obesity and overweight can often cause severe complications, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, amongst other ...
Forero-Laverde, Germán (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
This dissertation discusses the accumulation and unwinding of financial imbalances in stock markets and credit aggregates in advanced economies since the interwar years until the present. The project ...
Aristizábal Corrales, David (Date of defense: 2012-06-13)
14-3-3 proteins have been extensively studied from yeast to mammals, and are associated with multiple roles ranging from fundamental processes such as cell cycle, apoptosis and stress response to diseases ...
Rodríguez, Miguel (Date of defense: 2003-05-30)
Up until relatively recently, the discharging of waste in the environment was the way of eliminating them, until the auto-purifying capacity of the environment was not sufficient. The permitted levels ...
Giménez, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis fills important gaps of knowledge that will help to develop a proper conservation strategy for cetaceans in southern Iberian waters. We were able to define different ecological management ...
Bayés-García, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-07-10)
Esta tesis se basa fundamentalmente en el estudio in situ del polimorfismo de triacilgliceroles (TAGs) mayoritarios de aceites y grasas alimentarios, la determinación del comportamiento de fases de ...