Rodríguez-Vida Rodríguez, Alejo (Date of defense: 2017-10-23)
Prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide and the fifth leading cause of cancer death in men. Despite, the above mentioned incidence and mortality, the existence of a small ...
Roura Fornells, Esther (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
The objective of this thesis is to estimate prospectively the association between environmental cofactors and the risk of developing cervical cancer and pre-cancer, including tobacco smoking, hormonal ...
Rosselló Tortella, Margalida (Date of defense: 2021-12-09)
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential molecules that allow the translation of the genetic code into amino acids. Extensive research during the last 50 years have revealed that, despite their apparently ...
Morén Núñez, Constanza (Date of defense: 2012-04-11)
It is widely known that HIV and ARV drugs trigger mitochondrial impairment in adults. However, their effects in perinatally-infected children have been poorly explored. For this reason, the main hypothesis ...
Vegliante, Maria Carmela (Date of defense: 2013-09-26)
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is an aggressive subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphomas associated with poor prognosis and frequent relapses. Recently, the neuronal transcription factor SOX11 has been identified ...
Krasheninnikova, Maria Alieva (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)
Lately adipose tissue mesenchymal stem cells (hAMSCs) have emerged as cellular vehicles for therapy of solid tumors, due to their ease of isolation and manipulation, and wound/tumor homing capacity. ...
Recalde-Percaz, Leire (Date of defense: 2021-06-30)
Metastases are considered the last stage of tumour progression and the main cause of death associated to solid tumours. There are no effective treatments for metastasis which remain non- curable with ...
Nicolàs Pàrraga, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
Low risk Human Papillomaviruses (LR-HPVs) 6 and 11 are the main causative agents of benign proliferative lesions such genital warts (GWs) and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) (Aubin et al. ...
Vidal Crespo, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-04-28)
In this thesis we have focused on two novel therapeutic strategies that target the crosstalk between the tumor cells and the microenvironment. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains an incurable ...
Pérez Salvia, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2019-03-01)
Cancer is considered nowadays a genetic and epigenetic disease. Aberrancies in epigenetic marks in DNA and histone tails together with alterations in epigenetic regulators responsible of catalyzing ...