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 ...
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 ...
Recalde-Percaz, Leire (Date of defense: 2021-06-30)
Metastases are considered the last stage of tumour progression and the main cause of death associated to solid tumours. There are no effective treatments for metastasis which remain non- curable with ...
Casulleras i Oliver, Mireia (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
[eng] This doctoral thesis is divided in two studies with the commune aim of elucidating the molecular mechanisms of albumin on leukocytes, in the context of advanced liver cirrhosis. The first study ...
Llorente Lope, Alicia (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Metastatic breast cancer (BCa) is the leading cause of death in BCa patients. Current therapies for BCa aim at cell proliferation and, therefore, latent disseminated cells are able to escape treatment. ...
Matas Gironella, Júlia (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major health burden with large numbers of new cases worldwide and high disease-specific mortality, despite great advances made towards improving patient clinical outcomes. ...
Benítez, Sandra (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)
Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-β ligand (RANKL) and its receptor RANK are key mediators of bone resorption1,2. RANKL, its receptor RANK and its natural decoy receptor OPG, which is a competitive ...
Noguera-Castells, Aleix (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
Modern oncology conceives solid tumours as organs by themselves, meaning that not only should the behaviour of cancer cells to be considered and evaluated therapeutically, but also the so-called tumour ...
Royo Garrido, Romina (Date of defense: 2023-03-31)
[eng] Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized biomedical sciences, especially in the area of cancer. It has nourished genomic research with extensive collections of sequenced genomes that ...
Manzano Muñoz, Albert (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)
[eng] Personalized medicine has emerged to improve cancer treatment beyond classical approaches. The identification of genetic mutations by molecular analyses dominate personalized medicine initiatives ...