Morató Arús, Xavier (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
GPR37 is an orphan GPCR that belongs to the Rodhopsin family. GPR37 is highly expressed in the Central Nervous System (CNS), while little peripheral expression has been found in humans and rodents. GPR37 ...
Khojasteh, Abbas (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
Rosmarinic acid (RA), an ester of caffeic acid and 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl lactic acid, is widely distributed in the plant kingdom, including Satureja khuzistanica, a threatened Iranian plant species. ...
Solé Acha, Xavier (Date of defense: 2012-03-07)
Al llarg de les dues darreres dècades hem tingut el privilegi d’assistir a un dels esdeveniments més importants en la història de la biomedicina: el desenvolupament del Projecte Genoma Humà. Conjuntament ...
Guo, Ying (Date of defense: 2015-11-05)
The Amaryllidaceae alkaloids represent a large and still expanding group of isoquinoline alkaloids, usually classified into nine skeleton types whose representative compounds are: norbelladine, lycorine, ...
Chiesa, Giulio (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a member of the polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion diseases family; the most famous of which is Huntington disease (HD). SBMA is caused by the expansion of the ...
Parkkola, Hanna (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)
Novel stategies are needed to improve the limited efficacy of current cancer therapies. High expectations are directed towards nanotechnology-based applications in cancer medicine. We have developed a ...
Lúcia Pérez, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-02-14)
Despite the outstanding progress made in the understanding of the immune response against viral pathogens as well as on the care-management of transplant patients since the beginning of organ transplantation, ...
Ruiz Lozano, Tania Pamela (Date of defense: 2016-11-30)
Currently, the most effective treatment for severe obesity resulting in a large and marked weight loss is bariatric surgery (BS) (Courcoulas, AP et al. 2013).However, several studies have shown that ...
Galgoczy, Roland (Date of defense: 2013-12-03)
The extracellular matrix (ECM) hinders diffusion in both tissues and hydrogels used in 3D cultures. However, how geometric and non-geometric ECM properties contribute to diffusion hindrance remains ...
Morén Núñez, Constanza (Date of defense: 2012-04-11)
It is widely known that HIV and ARV drugs trigger mitochondrial impairment in adults. However, their effects in perinatally-infected children have been poorly explored. For this reason, the main hypothesis ...