Sacarlal, Jahit (Date of defense: 2009-07-13)
Malaria is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium, Plasmodiidae family, transmitted to humans through the bite of infected female Anopheles.spp mosquitoes. It is one of the major global ...
Ramírez Ruiz, Blanca (Date of defense: 2006-07-03)
Cognitive impairment of different degrees and hallucinations are common complications of chronic Parkinson's disease (PD). The pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and relationship between cognitive deficits ...
Urruticoechea Ribate, Ander (Date of defense: 2008-01-29)
DE LA TESIS:<br/><br/>El cáncer primario de mama es un problema de salud de gran magnitud con una incidencia estimada de 1 de cada 10 mujeres. De entre los tratamientos sistémicos, el tratamiento hormonal ...
Martínez Antón, Mª Asunción (Date of defense: 2008-07-17)
The overall objectives of this thesis are: one, characterize the expression of mucin at baseline human nasal mucosa in healthy and inflamed (nasal polyps), and two, to analyze the expression of mucin ...
Roca-Cusachs Soulere, Pere (Date of defense: 2007-02-15)
EN CATALÀ DE LA TESI DOCTORAL<br/><br/>"Importància de l'adhesió al substrat en la mecànica cel·lular: Implicacions en neutròfils i cèl·lules endotelials microvasculars".<br/><br/>En organismes ...
Soria Pastor, Sara (Date of defense: 2009-09-17)
Preterm birth is frequently associated with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental difficulties and of cognitive, behavioural and emotional problems during childhood. The present thesis comprises two ...
Suárez Martínez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2008-02-01)
The purpose of the present thesis is to be a basic and initial contribution to the knowledge about the corrosive behaviour of the archwires commonly used in lingual orthodontics. Once corrosive behaviour ...
García Cordente, Antonio Felipe (Date of defense: 2006-06-22)
In eukaryotes, L-carnitine is involved in energy metabolism, where it facilitates b-oxidation of fatty acids. Carnitine acyltransferases catalyze the reversible conversion of acyl-CoA and carnitine to ...
Grandes Vilaclara, Mª Eugenia (Date of defense: 2008-06-18)
The aim of this 4 year long work was to study the Connexin32 (Cx32), a protein that forms hemichannels anchored in the plasma membrane. Two hemichannels of adjacent cells form a gap junction. Mutations ...
San Miguel Insua, Iria (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)
Novel events in the context generate an involuntary orienting response which may have a different impact on the performance of ongoing tasks depending on the specific situation in which humans are ...