Aguilar Fadó, Esther (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)
Metastasis represents the most life-threatening aspect of tumorigenesis and is the leading cause of death by cancer. Intensive research in this field has shed light on some of the molecular strategies ...
Contreras Mostazo, Miriam Guadalupe (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)
Cancer cells, including leukemic cells, can react to therapeutic treatment by altering their metabolic phenotype (“metabolic reprogramming”) to keep their accelerated proliferative state, eventually ...
Tarragó Celada, Josep (Date of defense: 2020-09-16)
Metastasis is the main cause of cancer-related deaths and it is of great biomedical importance to develop new therapeutic strategies that specifically target metastatic cells. Therefore, a better ...
Cortés Giràldez, Roldàn (Date of defense: 2014-07-30)
El propósito de esta Tesis Doctoral es el de explorar nuevas posibilidades de tratamiento y de diagnóstico del cáncer de pulmón, y concretamente del cáncer de pulmón no microcítico de células con ...
Zodda, Erika (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The endothelium plays a pivotal role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and emerging evidence indicates that pathological blood vessel responses and endothelial dysfunction are associated ...
Baptista, Inês do Carmo Viegas (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Leukaemia is one of the types of cancer where treatment resistance is prevalent. Better understanding of leukemic cells metabolism opens possibilities for new therapeutic strategies and better prognosis ...
Foguet Coll, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Metabolism is a hallmark of life and underlies most biological processes in both health and disease. For instance, dysregulation of liver metabolism underlies multifactorial disorders such as diabetes ...
Marín de Mas, Igor Bartolomé (Date of defense: 2015-03-20)
The general aim of this thesis is to develop and apply new computational tools to overcome existing limitations in the analysis of metabolism. This thesis is focused on developing new computational ...