Kamaid Toth, Andres (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are diffusible molecules involved in a variety of cellular interactions during development. In particular, Bmp4 expression accompanies the development of the ear sensory ...
Aragüés Peleato, Ramón (Date of defense: 2007-07-13)
La importancia de comprender los procesos biológicos ha estimulado el desarrollo de métodos para la detección de interacciones proteína-proteína. Esta tesis presenta PIANA (Protein Interactions And ...
Moreno Estrada, Andrés (Date of defense: 2009-04-21)
Natural selection has played an important role in shaping human genetic variation, thus, finding variants that have been targeted by positive selection can provide insights about which genes influence ...
Muiños Gimeno, Margarita (Date of defense: 2009-12-18)
We have investigated genetic variation in microRNA-mediated regulation as a susceptibility factor for anxiety disorders following two different approaches. We first studied two isoforms of the candidate ...
Morancho Armisen, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2008-06-19)
NFAT5 is the main regulator of an osmoprotective gene program that is switched on by osmotic stress. Hypertonicity causes a harmful increase in the intracellular concentration of inorganic ions and ...
Eliscovich, Carolina (Date of defense: 2008-06-11)
La progresión meiótica y el desarrollo embrionario temprano están programados, en parte, por la activación tradcuccional de mRNAs maternos como lo son los que codifican para las proteinas de ciclina B1 ...
Morey Ramonell, Lluís (Date of defense: 2008-02-01)
En mamíferos, así como en plantas, mutaciones en AND helicasas/ATPasas del la família SNF2, no solo afectan a la estructura de la cromatina, sino que también afectan al patrón global de la metilación ...
Abaza, Irina (Date of defense: 2006-11-03)
Dosage compensation is a mechanism that equalizes the expression of X-linked genes in those organisms in which males and females differ in the number of X chromosomes. In Drosophila melanogaster, dosage ...
Ballana Guix, Ester (Date of defense: 2007-05-04)
La seqüenciació del genoma humà ha marcat una fita important en la història de la biologia. Com a conseqüència, la genètica i la genòmica han experimentat un progrés enorme. Això ha permès un millor ...