Herrera Hernández, María Guadalupe (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)
Dietary polyphenols represent a group of secondary metabolites which widely occur in fruits, vegetables, wine, tea, extra virgin olive oil, chocolate and other cocoa products. Previous studies have shown ...
Revilla López, Guillem (Date of defense: 2011-02-17)
L’enginyeria de sistemes bioinspirats ha crescut en importància i nombre d’aplicacions en el últims anys, atraient l’atenció dels científics sobre els seus usos potencials en camps com ara la ...
Romero Fernández, Wilber (Date of defense: 2011-05-20)
The human M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M3R) regulates many important physiological roles in the central and peripheral nervous systems, and it is involved in the pathophysiology of several ...
Rodríguez Contreras, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2013-06-06)
Nowadays biopolymers are a good alternative to petrochemical polymers. One of these biopolymers is Poly[(R)-3- Hydroxybutyrate] (PHB) which is produced from renewable resources by various microorganisms ...
Sánchez Giraldo, Raquel (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)
High Mobility Group proteins (HMG) are architectural factors involved in modulating chromatin structure and influencing a myriad of cellular processes such as transcription, replication and DNA repair. ...
Fernández Sampedro, Miguel Antonio (Date of defense: 2018-06-11)
Visual opsins are G protein-coupled receptors that function as light photoreceptors in the vertebrate retina. Rhodopsin is the visual pigment located in the rod photoreceptor cells specialized in scotopic ...
Llorens Domenjó, Elena (Date of defense: 2014-11-14)
Electrospinning is a manufacturing process that uses an electric field to produce fibers from a polymer solution. The accumulation of these fibers conform a three-dimensional fiber matrix or scaffold. ...
Tena Campos, Mercè (Date of defense: 2015-06-16)
The type of serotonin receptor 1A (5-HT1A), the galanin type 1 (GalR1) and the orphan receptor 39 (GPR39) belong to the superfamily The serotonin receptor type 1A (5-HT1A), the galanin receptor type 1 ...
Millán Elías, Cinthia Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
AT-rich sequences confer unique properties to DNA, such as high polymorphism and flexibility. The abundance of AT-rich DNA in several pathogens' genomes and the ability of specific molecules to selectively ...