Malagón Rodríguez, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
This thesis aims to develop a new non-invasive tool based on faecal bacterial markers for the early detection of colorectal cancer, which is capable of detecting precancerous lesions before the onset ...
Sepúlveda, Lilian (Date of defense: 2016-09-30)
Boar semen is not collected under sterile conditions,so boar ejaculates are commonly contaminated with a broad range of microorganisms, which may affect sperm quality and lead to a low reproductive ...
Balmaña Esteban, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2016-07-07)
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by high intrinsic aggressiveness and late diagnosis, causing poor prognosis and resulting ...
Planella Albí, Laia (Date of defense: 2018-06-27)
The blue and red shrimp, Aristeus antennatus, is a commercially important crustacean in the Western Mediterranean Sea and has been listed as a priority species for fishery management. In this thesis, ...
Boada Cahueñas, Ellana (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Biogas is a highly recognized alternative to fossil fuels towards a sustainable energy production. Massive use of biogas depends on the removal of contaminants that may affect performance of processing ...
Prieto Martínez, Noelia (Date of defense: 2017-03-17)
Aquaporins (AQPs) are proteins involved in the transport of water and some other solutes across plasma membranes. The fact that mammalian spermatozoa are highly permeable to water suggests the presence ...
Casas Roqueta, Isabel (Date of defense: 2010-07-08)
L'ús d'esperma criopreservada en la inseminació artificial (IA) d'espècies d'interès productiu permet un major control sanitari i la creació de bancs de germoplasma d'alt valor genètic, entre d'altres ...
Jurado Bruggeman, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-16)
Introduction Different types of dose calculation algorithms for external beam radiation therapy with MV photons coexist nowadays. The oldest ones are convolution/superposition (C/S), which consider all ...
Mateo Otero, Yentel (Date of defense: 2023-06-13)
For many years, reproductive outcomes were considered as being solely determined by the genome of oocytes and sperm. Yet, in the last decades, many other female and male factors have also been found to ...
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 ...