Quintanilla Casas, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)
Olive oil (OO) is a highly appreciated food product due to its nutritional value and organoleptic properties, marketed worldwide. In spite of being one of the most regulated food products, its high ...
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 ...
Lozano Castellón, Julián (Date of defense: 2022-10-17)
[eng] Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) is widely consumed raw and cooked, due its flavor and its proven health benefits. However, cooking changes EVOO composition, diminishing these health effects. In this ...
Guo, Xiaohui (Date of defense: 2016-09-23)
There is a consensus that CVD has been the leading cause of death worldwide in recent decades, and it is predicted that will raise from 17.5 million in 2012 to 22.2 million in 2030. Besides, CVD is a ...
Sanz Lamora, Hèctor (Date of defense: 2022-12-14)
[eng] Bioactive compounds have long been proposed as a tool to help facing both obesity and its comorbidities pandemic. Knowledge on their properties, together with the discovery of new therapeutic ...
Mostafa, Hamza Mohamed Amin (Date of defense: 2023-04-26)
[eng] Anthocyanins (ACNs) are a type of flavonoid within the family of polyphenols. Plant foods like fruits and vegetables, and particularly berries, are foods rich in ACNs. ACNs are of interest from a ...
Pérez Martí, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-03-13)
Obesity and associated metabolic diseases have reached epidemic proportions, affecting not only high-income countries but also low- and middle-income ones. In this context, the search for therapeutic ...
Rosario, Alexandra Carrilho do (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
This Thesis has been divided into three different chapters, the regulation of Fsp27 during the fasting adaptation, the transcriptional regulation of Fsp27 in liver and finally the role of FSP27 as a ...
Zerón Rugerio, Maria Fernanda (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)
Our daily lives are controlled by three clocks: the sun clock, the biological clock, and the social clock (local time). The sun clock gives our daily life a 24h periodicity (mainly through light- dark ...
Martínez Garza, Úrsula Montserrat (Date of defense: 2020-11-02)
The excessive consumption of calorie-rich foods, together with a sedentary lifestyle, drive the actual global obesity pandemic. Obesity is the leading cause of several other metabolic disorders, such ...