Peñarrubia Lozano, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-10-21)
The zebra mussel and the Asian clam are two invasive aquatic species worldwide. Both species are present in the Iberian Peninsula for several years. However, introduction history and colonization routes ...
Miró Domènech, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) presents a dismal prognosis mainly due to its delayed diagnosis, its aggressiveness, and resistance to existing therapies. Aberrant glycosylation and, in particular, ...
Sarrats Carbó, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2011-02-10)
Els pacients amb càncer presenten una taxa de supervivència superior si es diagnostiquen a estadis inicials, per la qual cosa és indispensable disposar de marcadors tumorals adequats. Glicoformes de ...
Bonet-Rossinyol, Queralt (Date of defense: 2024-07-12)
Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) is a bacterium found in the intestine that can adhere to and invade intestinal epithelial cells and to survive and replicate inside macrophages. Although it has ...
Caballero-Huertas, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)
Small pelagic fish play an important ecological role mainly due to their contribution in transferring energy from low to higher trophic levels. Likewise, the capture of these species is in many cases ...
López Siles, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
In this PhD thesis Faecalibacterium prausnitzii populations of patients with gut disease and healthy individuals have been characterized. First, isolates from healthy volunteers have been phenotypically ...
Lluansí Salis, Aleix (Date of defense: 2024-07-01)
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of immune-mediated chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions of multifactorial etiology. Unfortunately, there are still some gaps in its pathophysiology and, ...
Muñoz San Martín, María (Date of defense: 2021-09-15)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the existence of demyelinated areas in the central nervous system, infiltration of inflammatory ...
Pérez Garay, Marta (Date of defense: 2011-02-07)
Este trabajo demuestra que los genes que codifican para los enzimas beta-galactosido alfa-2,3-sialiltransferasa 3 (ST3Gal III), y en menor medida beta-galactosido alfa-2,3-sialiltransferasa 4 (ST3Gal ...
Ruiz Martínez, Santiago (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)
The main aim of the present study is to characterize the biological and biophysical properties of Apoptin, a viral protein that selectively induces apoptosis of a wide range of tumor cells. Apoptin has ...