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Plazaola Sasieta, Haritz (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
The chloride channel ClCN2 is expressed in glia in the mature nervous system of vertebrates and some physiological functions have been proposed. In addition, human patients with mutations in the gene or dysfunction of the ...
Militti, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-07-26)
En Drosophila, el desequilibrio en cuanto al contenido de genes ligados al cromosoma X entre hembras (XX) y machos (XY) es corregido mediante la duplicación de la transcripción del único cromosoma X del macho. Este proceso, ...
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 compensation is ...
Díaz Loaiza, Manuel Andrés (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
Floods and Drought are some of the most catastrophic natural disasters for humanity, averaging 1 to 5 billion dollar of annually damage for flood events and 6 to 8 billion dollars respectively for drought events. To avoid ...
Coll Benages, Joan Ramon (Date of defense: 2013-10-15)
Drought variability and change is assessed in this study across the Iberian Peninsula along the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century using state of the art drought indices: the Sc-PDSI, the SPI and the ...
Galianao Pérez, Lucía (Date of defense: 2012-03-07)
Los crecientes episodios extremos de sequía asociados al cambio climático someten a los árboles a un fuerte estrés fisiológico que, ocasionalmente, los conduce a una rápida defoliación y a la muerte. En los últimos años, ...
Ros i Simó, Clara (Date of defense: 2013-03-15)
Adolescence is a critical developmental period in which the brain emerges from an immature state to adulthood. This process of brain development is associated to greater cognitive capacity but also to altered emotional ...
García Díaz, María (Date of defense: 2012-06-15)
S'ha estudiat el desenvolupament de fotosensibilitzadors i la seva formulació en teràpia fotodinàmica. S'han caracteritzat les propietats fotofísiques dels fotosensibilitzadors porficènics. S'han proposat diferents estratègies ...
Remez Vinogradov, Nikita (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
The explosion of reductionist approaches at the end of the XXth century allowed for fast and high-throughput data collection in pharmaceutical industry, but did not deliver the expected gain in drug discovery performance. ...
Berrio Íñigo, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
Aquesta tesi industrial tenia com a objectiu transferir la vacuna Acinetovax duna companyia biotecnològica a una companyia farmacèutica on pogués ser industrialitzada. Aquesta vacuna va ser desenvolupada per prevenir les ...
Blasi Pérez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2013-02-27)
Several drug discovery approaches has been performed to find new compounds able to interact with high affinity with the hormone binding site of the homotetrameric protein transthyretin (TTR), and stabilize this tetramer, ...
Iruela Martin, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
c-Src tyrosine kinase is associated with poor prognosis in many cancer processes. Although inhibitors of c-Src kinase activity are known, they have not reached success in clinical trials because of lack of selectivity or ...
Martínez Flórez, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)
Las leishmaniasis, la tripanosomiasis Americana y Africana, y la malaria son enfermedades parasitarias que constituyen un importante problema de salud global que afecta mayoritariamente a países en desarrollo. El aumento ...
Mastroianni, Nicola (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
In the last decades, the development of increasingly sensitive analytical techniques has revealed the presence in the environment of a large number of potentially dangerous compounds for human health and the environment, ...
Vallespir Torrens, Francisca (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
[eng] Drying process is commonly used to reduce fruits and vegetables moisture content in order to enlarge their shelf life. However, convective drying can promote product quality parameters losses due to thermal and air ...
Dallari, Pietro (Date of defense: 2014-06-16)
This thesis adopts DSGE and PVAR models to examine three questions in macroeconomics. The first chapter singles out some pitfalls that DSGE models face when a fraction of rule-of-thumb consumers is assumed in order to ...
Ardanuy Della, Antoni (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)
This thesis aims at exploring the limits of low peak-power, low-cost, all-semiconductor, compact lidars (laser radars) for range-resolved remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols and clouds. The systems investigated are based ...
Van Geert, Fabien (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)
En politique rien ne semble possible sans références culturelles, sans la mobilisation d’un imaginaire collectif. Avec la déclaration de nombreux Etats de leur caractère multiculturel au cours de la seconde ...
Zuazo Gaztelu, Iratxe (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Tumor progression is a complex conundrum of events that involve not only tumor cells, but also their surrounding microenvironment. Accounting to the natural dependency of tumors on angiogenesis, its therapeutic targeting ...
Petrovic, Jelena (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
Durante el desarrollo del oído interno, Notch presenta dos modos de funcionamiento: inducción lateral, que se asocia con la especificación prosensorial, e inhibición lateral, asociada a la determinación de las células ...