Fàbrega Coll, Anna (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
Mammalian spermatozoa acquire functionality during epididymal maturation and ability to penetrate and fertilize the oocyte during capacitation. Sperm quality results indicated that both epididymal ...
Guerrero Barrado, Pedro Enrique (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common pancreatic cancer, remains one of the most lethal tumor types, with extremely low survival rates due to late diagnosis and resistance to standard ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bassagañas i Puigdemont, Sònia (Date of defense: 2014-12-03)
Changes in the expression of Lewis-type glycan antigens, especially a predominance of sialyl-Lewis x (SLex) structure, and the glycosyltransferases involved in its synthesis, correlate with pancreatic ...
Vilagran Martí, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Sperm cryopreservation is currently the most suitable technique to store boar sperm samples for a long period of time. However, not all boar ejaculations present the same freezability, this allows the ...
Yeste Oliveras, Marc (Date of defense: 2008-12-17)
En aquesta tesi s'han dut a terme dos tipus d'estudis diferents. L'objectiu del primer era la preservació del semen de porcí a 15ºC i el del segon eren els co-cultius homòlegs de cèl·lules epitelials ...
Oliveras Ferrarós, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
The aim of this doctoral thesis was to unravel mechanisms underlying primary resistance to trastuzumab regarding a putative new breast cancer subtype with mixed basal & ErbB2+ molecular features. Using ...
Castillo Martín, Miriam (Date of defense: 2014-07-09)
In the present Thesis, we observed that vitrifying-warming porcine embryos had detrimental effects. Indeed, vitrification and warming were seen to reduce developmental ability and quality of in vitro ...
Cufí González, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)
Aquest és el primer informe que demostra que l'autofàgia està mecànicament vinculat al manteniment de les cèl•lules tumorals que expressen alts nivells de CD44 i baixos nivells de CD24, que són típics ...