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 ...
Canivell Fusté, Silvia (Date of defense: 2014-10-14)
The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is increasing worldwide. There are several explanations to this fact, such as the increased prevalence of obesity, population’s ageing, and the lack of ...
Castillo Figueroa, Ana Lucía (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
A number of recent studies in animals and humans have linked energy regulation and the circadian clock at the molecular, physiological and behavioral levels, concluding that disruption of clock genes ...
Papageorgiou, Katherina (Date of defense: 2013-02-28)
This thesis aims to progress in deciphering the effect of the cytokines secreted by the visceral adipose tissue of obese individuals with type 2 diabetes on the endothelium, and therefore contribute to ...
Brugnara, Laura (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune chronic disease that has undergone drastic changes on its clinical natural history in the last decades. Until the early XX century, the diagnosis of diabetes ...