Sicart Casellas, Adrià (Date of defense: 2014-02-12)
Diacylglycerol (DAG) is required for the generation of transport carriers at the Golgi complex. Several enzymatic reactions have been found to contribute to the maintenance of DAG levels at this organelle. ...
Tintoré Gazulla, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-07-01)
The O6-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase (hAGT or MGMT) is a DNA repair protein in charge of removing alkyl adducts from the O6 position of guanines, blocking their cytotoxic effects and playing an ...
Burgos Rincón, Felip (Date of defense: 2013-09-12)
INTRODUCTION The deployment of new health care models based on the coordination between different levels is a priority at European level to manage the dysfunctions generated by health and social ...
Brugnara, Laura (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune chronic disease that has undergone drastic changes on its clinical natural history in the last decades. Until the early XX century, the diagnosis of diabetes ...
Ercilla Eguiarte, Amaia (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)
The cell cycle, the group of processes involved in the duplication and division of a cell in two daughter cells is essential for all organism existence. The correct regulation of these processes is ...
Yefimenko Nosova, Natalia (Date of defense: 2016-06-17)
AMPA receptors (AMPARs) are responsible for the 90% of synaptic transmission and are involved in plasticity, developmental and neurological processes. Their function depends on the proteins interacting ...
Noell, Guillaume (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), including cancer, cardiovascular (heart diseases or stroke), respiratory (COPD or asthma) and metabolic diseases (diabetes) are chronic conditions that represent a major ...
Mingot Martí, Ares (Date of defense: 2016-05-31)
Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) (Potyvirus genus, Potyviridae family) causes important yield losses in sweet potato crops, in particular in co-infections with the unrelated crinivirus Sweet ...
Palau de Miguel, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
In the past decades, Helicobacter pylori has received the attention of many researchers because of its known relation with gastric cancer. Although many studies have tried to decipher the exact relation ...
Díaz Gay, Marcos (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the malignant neoplasms with higher incidence and mortality in Spain, Europe and worldwide. As a complex disease, both environmental and genetic factors influence CRC ...