Santa Bárbara Ruiz, Paula (Date of defense: 2017-07-28)
Countless environmental aggressors could damage the integrity of tissues and organs. In humans, the limited regenerative ability prevents often the recovery of injured tissues, but this is not the case ...
Fábrega Fernández, María José (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
Gut microbiota play a critical role in maintaining human intestinal homeostasis and host health. Bacterial extracellular vesicles are key players in bacteria-host communication as they allow delivery ...
Fàbrega Ferrer, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
The Escherichia coli infecting T7 bacteriophage shares a common dsDNA packaging mechanism with other bacteriophages of the Caudovirales order, Herpesviruses and Adenoviruses. The packaging machinery ...
Mir Bonnín, Joan Francesc (Date of defense: 2016-07-11)
Previous studies have reported the importance of carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) 1A as an essential part of downstream ghrelin signaling in the central nervous system (CNS) for the control of food ...
Almacellas i Canals, Eugènia (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Lysosomes are the primary degradative organelles in mammalian cells. Indeed, lysosome enzymatic cocktail allows the degradation of a vast repertoire of cellular material through different converging ...
Diaz Garrido, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-11-17)
The gut microbiota establishes dynamic and complex interactions with the intestinal epithelium and the immune system. In this regard, commensal microbiota plays essential role in the development and ...
Kundisová, Ivana (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)
Table olives are an important source of phenolic compounds, whose beneficial health effects have been widely demonstrated. Therefore, the present thesis aims to assess the different phenolic compounds ...
Wu, Yuanbing (Date of defense: 2023-04-28)
[eng] Eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5n-3, EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3, DHA) are omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFA) known to prevent atherosclerosis, stroke, obesity, ...
Ruiz Iglesias, Patricia (Date of defense: 2022-09-14)
[eng] The influence of exercise on immune system has gained increasing attention from researchers lately, mainly due to the growing participation of the general population in sport competitions. Whereas ...
Martínez Delgado, Paula (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
Mitosis is a process that ensure the correct distribution of the chromosomes between the two newly generated cells, is tightly regulated by two main processes, protein degradation controlled by the APC ...