Feliu Josa, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2021-03-08)
[eng] INTRODUCTION. Smoking is one of the major public health problems of our times, killing eight-million people a year from direct tobacco-related diseases. Active smoking has been associated with an ...
Salamanca Viloria, Juan (Date of defense: 2022-05-27)
Tribbles (TRIB) homologues proteins are a family of three pseudokinases withan important role in controlling immunity, metabolism, and cancer throughprotein-protein interactions (PPIs). TRIB pseudokinases ...
Martínez Campanario, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 2021-05-27)
Macrophages polarization from an inflammatory to a tolerogenic state occurs in both physiological and pathological, and this reprogramming is key in the development of several diseases as different as ...
Carreras Salinas, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[eng] The bacterial colonisation of the respiratory tract is critical for health as it establishes a symbiotic relationship between the bacterial community and the host. Haemophilus influenzae and ...
Rodríguez Urgellés, Ened (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, psychiatric, and cognitive manifestations. The disease is caused by an unstable expansion ...
Rosselló Tortella, Margalida (Date of defense: 2021-12-09)
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential molecules that allow the translation of the genetic code into amino acids. Extensive research during the last 50 years have revealed that, despite their apparently ...
Szulc, Elizbieta Maria (Date of defense: 2020-01-09)
Androgen receptor is a transcription factor that plays a key role in prostate cancer development and progression. Its N-terminal intrinsically disordered activation domain is an example of ill- structured ...
Vidal Fuentes, Pedro (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
This PhD thesis explores the quasi one dimensional Sb2Se3 absorber material and its application in substrate thin film solar cells in a SLG/Mo/Sb2Se3/CdS/i-ZnO/ITO configuration. The body of the thesis ...
Sandoval Sandoval, Viviana Paz (Date of defense: 2020-02-20)
The excess of fat deposits are originated by a prolonged imbalance between the energy intake and the energy expenditure. The current food pattern based on a high consumption of saturated fats, simple ...
Aseeri, Mazen (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
[eng] The main goals of this PhD thesis are closely related within the field of CDases and their key role in the regulation of sphingolipid metabolism. Thus, the roles of ACER3 and AC in different human ...