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Función y calidad de vida de los pacientes con gonartrosis antes y después de la artroplastia de sustitución. Coste de la gonartrosis según la esperanza de vida y de la cirugía

Ramón Rona, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2001-07-04)

La artrosis es la enfermedad osteoarticular más prevalente en la raza humana, y la causa más frecuente de discapacidad en los E.E.U.U., cuya incidencia va en aumento y que genera importantes problemas socio-económicos por ...

Función y mecanismo de acción de los activadores del plasminógeno en cáncer

Hurtado Martínez, Mariano (Date of defense: 2009-11-20)

El objeto de estudio de esta tesis ha sido dilucidar los diferentes mecanismos a partir de los cuales las serina proteasa activadoras del plasminógeno, uPA y tPA, llevan a cabo sus efectos en la progresión tumoral del ...

Función, conectividad cerebral y diferencias individuales en el procesamiento de recompensas

Costumero Ramos, Víctor (Date of defense: 2013-09-17)

Introducción: La Teoría de la Sensibilidad al Reforzamiento (RST, del inglés: Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory) de Jeffrey A. Gray (Gray, 1970, 1982; Gray y McNaughton, 2000) supuso una revolución en el estudio biológico ...

Function and brain structure in aging with and without cognitive impairment

Solé Padullés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2007-11-09)

L'interès general d'aquest projecte de tesi doctoral es centra en l'estudi dels patrons d'activació cerebral subjacents a l'envelliment cognitiu, tant en condicions clíniques normals com patològiques (Alteració cognitiva ...

Function and Operator Theory on Large Bergman spaces

Arroussi, Hicham (Date of defense: 2016-05-06)

The theory of Bergman spaces has been a central subject of study in complex analysis during the past decades. The book [7] by S. Bergman contains the first systematic treat-ment of the Hilbert space of square integrable ...

Function and Regulation of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7 (BMP7) in Cerebral Cortex Development

Ortega Cano, Juan Alberto (Date of defense: 2011-09-30)

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a chemokine which levels are regulated by neuronal activity and could act as a sensor in front of distinct physiologic stimulus, activating the transcription of specific group ...

Function and structure of river sediment biofilms and their role in dissolved organic matter utilization

Freixa Casals, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-02-18)

The objective of this thesis was to study how sediment microbial communities in Mediterranean rivers used dissolved organic matter at different spatial and temporal scales. Results from the two field studies, showed that ...

Function of microRNAs in plant innate immunity

Camargo Ramírez, Rosany del Carmen (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)

Esta tesis aborda el estudio de miARNs en la inmunidad innata en plantas. El trabajo se ha desarrollado en arroz (Capítulo I y Capítulo II) y en Arabidopsis (Capítulo III), En el capítulo I se describe la identificación y ...

Function of the histone demethylase PHF8 in neural progenitor cells and glial differentiation

Iacobucci, Simona (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)

Taking into consideration the current knowledge about the subjects treated, several goals were proposed for this PhD thesis in order to further understand PHF8 function in both astrocytes and neural stem cells biology. To ...

Functional adequacy: The effect of Englsih Medium Instruction, English Proficiency and previous language learning experiences

Herraiz Martínez, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-12-17)

This thesis analyses undergraduate learners' pragmatic development. The participants of the study were enrolled in English-medium instruction atlhree different Spanish universities. Pragmatic development is operationalised ...

Functional analyses of candidate genes for osteoporosis : RUNX2 and LRP5 interplay during differentiation of the hFOB human osteoblast cell line

Gholami, Behjat (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)

Osteoporosis is a general skeletal disorder. It is characterized by a low bone mass and a microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, which increase bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. LRP5 is a widely ...

Functional analyses of tissue and organ specificity at the core of the arabidopsis circadian clock

Takahashi, Nozomu (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)

El reloj circadiano es un mecanismo celular responsable de la generación de ritmos biológicos con un periodo de 24 horas. La importancia de la función del reloj circadiano es evidente en casi todos los organismos estudiados ...

Functional analysis of a phloem cysteine protease in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pitsili, Eugenia (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)

Metacaspases are a family of cysteine proteases found in lower eukaryotes and plants. They are considered to be distant relatives of caspases, present only in animals. The role of metacaspases is quite diverse, from ...

Functional analysis of candidate genes for meat quality traits and muscle transcriptomics in pigs

Criado Mesas, Lourdes (Date of defense: 2020-06-08)

Avui dia el consum mundial de carn està creixent, sent la carn de porc una de les més consumides. La millora de la qualitat de la carn està subjecta als requisits del consumidor per productes carnis més saludables i ...

Functional analysis of Drosophila melanogaster linker histone dH1

Vujatovic, Olivera (Date of defense: 2012-07-27)

We did functional characterisation of Drosophila melanogaster linker histone, dH1. In the mutant state for this protein, we observed structural changes in polytene chromosomes chromocenter and nucleoli of mutant larvae. ...

Functional analysis of EXD2 in mitochondrial homeostasis

Faria da Silva, Joana Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)

One of the most fundamental events in the history of life is the origin of mitochondria. It was firstly proposed by Ivan Wallin, and later popularized by Lynn Margulis, as part of the endosymbiotic theory, that mitochondria ...

Functional analysis of JmjC+N histone demethylases in Drosophila melanogaster

Lloret Llinares, Marta (Date of defense: 2011-05-17)

La metilació de les lisines de les histones està implicada en les funcions associades a la cromatina, com l’expressió gènica o la formació d’heterocromatina. És una modificació covalent afegida per metiltransferases ...

Functional analysis of Mobile toolkits in high-resolution Middle Paleolithic contexts: Abric Romaní (Barcelona, Spain) and Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO, Israel)

Martin-Viveros Diaz-Meco, Juan Ignacio (Date of defense: 2023-11-17)

Aquesta tesi doctoral es centra en una anàlisi funcional exhaustiva d'eines lítiques mòbils en dos jaciments del Paleolític Mitjà: Abric Romaní a Barcelona, Espanya, i Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO) a Israel. L'estudi ...

Functional analysis of position effects of inversion 2j in Drosophila buzzatii: gene CG13617 silencing and its adpative significance

Puig Font, Marta (Date of defense: 2010-12-23)

És sabut de fa molt temps que les inversions cromosòmiques son mantenides per selecció natural a les poblacions de Drosophila. No obstant, els mecanismes moleculars que generen aquest valor adaptatiu encara no es coneixen. ...

Functional analysis of the extraproteasomal ubiquitin receptor Dsk2/UBQLN in Drosophila and human cells

Di Mauro, Gianmarco (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)

Dsk2/UBQLN is a conserved extraproteasomal ubiquitin receptor that has been widely described as a protein involved in the ubiquitin proteasome pathway. In Drosophila, this protein has been recently reported in a non-proteolitic ...