Garcia Carbonell, Ricard (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory processes that affect the gastrointestinal tract. IBD is characterized by an intestinal inflammation and epithelial cell injury leading to a ...
Moizé Arcone, Violeta (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
BACKGROUND: Bariatric surgery (BS) is the most effective long-term therapy for the treatment of severe obesity. Benefits of BS include a reduction of overall and cardiovascular mortality, incidence of ...
Scaffidi, Salvatore (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
Once a target is identified and characterized, the long pathway to develop a drug starts. In this process, biophysical methods have an important part to play and nowadays are firmly combined at several ...
Alves Figueiredo, Hugo Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
El trasplante de islotes ha sido reconocido como una prometedora opción de tratamiento de la diabetes tipo 1 (DT1) tras la introducción del protocolo de Edmonton, el cual enfatiza el requerimiento de ...
Domostegui Fernández, Ana (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
The oncogene MYC is altered and its expression is deregulated in up to 70% of human cancers, including B cell neoplasms. Earlier studies in a mouse model of Eμ-MYC-driven B-cell lymphomas reported that ...
Garza Puentes, Andrea de la (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
Maternal obesity has implications on the health of future generations by early life programming. The mother is usually the main source of nutrients for the fetus and neonate, hence her nutritional status ...
Méndiz Manero, Mª Victoria (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
[eng] I have used the brain tumours that originate in Drosophila larvae upon depletion of the brain tumor (brat) gene as a model to study neoplastic malignant growth. I have used genetic analysis to ...
Tatarski, Miloš (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
INTRODUCTION: For decades it was known that many species contain embryo specific linker histone H1 variants that replace the somatic H1 during early embryogenesis. This is especially important because ...
Vázquez Lozano, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-09-13)
Three-dimensional ligand-based virtual screening methods have been used for many years in drug discovery, with a variable success depending on different factors, such as the complexity of the target ...
Suñé Pou, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-07-12)
Cationic Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (cSLNs) are one of the most promising nonviral vectors for gene therapy and DNA / RNA delivery. The aim of this thesis is the development and research of new formulations ...