Marhuenda Segarra, Esther (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)
[spa] Las células se encuentran en un entorno concreto, específico para la función de cada órgano. En el caso de los pulmones, la matriz extracelular ha de tener unas propiedades físicas que les ...
Dahdah, Norma (Date of defense: 2022-07-27)
[eng] Obesity has become exceedingly pervasive, a resultant of amplified food availability and reshaped human behavior stimulated by urbanization. It poses as a major challenge for human metabolic ...
Prieto Durán, Iván (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
[spa] A día de hoy, el cáncer es la segunda causa de mortalidad en el ser humano y la mayoría de las muertes son producidas por la metástasis. Aunque se han postulado varias hipótesis para explicar ...
Chen, Chun-Wei (Date of defense: 2022-11-08)
[eng] HPV and HIV-1 are important public health issues in some developing and industrialized countries, but an effective chimeric HPV:HIV preventive vaccine is still unachievable. We aimed to establish ...
Cañellas Socias, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) kills around 700,000 people worldwide every year. The majority of these deaths are the result of dissemination of the disease to foreign organs. Despite undergoing curative ...
Font Díaz, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Nuclear receptors are a superfamily of ligand-dependent transcription factors that are involved in numerous biological processes in homeostasis and disease. Liver X receptors (LXRs) are members of the ...
Gracia Latorre, Elena (Date of defense: 2023-06-01)
[eng] Enhancers are the master regulators of gene expression. Genes rely on them to be differentially expressed in different tissues, developmental time points or contexts. In recent years, it has been ...
Fernández Gel, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
[eng] I study the metaphysical foundation of ethics in Aristotle and Aquinas. I conclude their ethical systems rest on an essentialist and teleological metaphysics, without which they collapse. Next, I ...
Alonso Martínez de Marañón, Josune (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
[spa] La terapia actual contra la mayoría de los cánceres está basada en el uso de agentes que dañan el ADN, como la quimioterapia o la radioterapia, que erradican las células tumorales proliferantes. ...
Bantulà, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[eng] This thesis has been designed to characterize the low-grade chronic inflammation present in obesity in patients suffering from asthma, and to describe some of the mechanisms involved in the ...