Magallón Lorenz, Miriam (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
[eng] Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are rare soft-tissues sarcomas of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) with poor prognosis and lack of therapeutic options. Complete resection with ...
Salinas Pena, Mónica (Date of defense: 2023-09-20)
[eng] The histone H1 family comprises up to seven members in human somatic cells. However, H1 studies have been limited by the lack of specific ChIP-grade antibodies. Here, we have mapped six endogenous ...
Clua Villas, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-07-17)
[eng] G-quadruplexes are non-canonical DNA structures that appear in Guanine-rich oligonucleotides. Four Guanines interact through Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds forming a tetrad which is stabilized by metallic ...
Raimondi, Giulia (Date of defense: 2020-06-08)
The general goal of this thesis has been to progress oncolytic adenovirus therapy for PDAC, by the incorporation of novel preclinical models to test for patient-specific responses and the generation of ...
Fernández Alfara, Marcos (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Translation of mRNAs into proteins is a highly regulated step of gene expression. In cancer, post-transcriptional and translational control have a critical effect on transformation, controlling ...
Acevedo Lipes, Andrea Milena (Date of defense: 2021-03-09)
Clinical pathologists identify visually many morphological features to characterize the different normal cells, as well as the abnormal cell types whose presence in peripheral blood is the evidence of ...
Franco Valls, Héctor (Date of defense: 2022-05-26)
SNAIL1 is a transcription factor with roles in repression of epithelial genes and enhancement of mesenchymal genes. As such, it plays a key role in Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and in fibroblast ...
Moreno Cabrera, José Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
This PhD thesis has been carried out with the aim of improving, from a bioinformatic-based approach, the genetic diagnostics of hereditary cancer. More specifically, the aims were: 1. To perform a ...
Aubets Gil, Eva (Date of defense: 2021-09-19)
This work is focused on the study of Polypurine Reverse Hoogsteen hairpins (PPRHs) as a gene silencing tool, and on the search of alternative methods for their delivery, including viral and non-viral ...
Moles Fernández, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
Patients with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) in whom a causative pathogenic variant is not identified after genetic analysis may not benefit from prevention, early detection, or precision ...