Rodríguez Nuevo, Aida (Date of defense: 2018-04-12)
Opa1 is a mitochondrial dynamics protein responsible for the fusion of the inner mitochondrial membrane, the maintenance of cristae morphology, and involved in mitochondrial DNA stability. In this study ...
Zodda, Erika (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The endothelium plays a pivotal role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and emerging evidence indicates that pathological blood vessel responses and endothelial dysfunction are associated ...
Baptista, Inês do Carmo Viegas (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Leukaemia is one of the types of cancer where treatment resistance is prevalent. Better understanding of leukemic cells metabolism opens possibilities for new therapeutic strategies and better prognosis ...
Nukala, Sarath Babu (Date of defense: 2019-05-23)
The vascular endothelium is one of the major targets of oxidative stress, playing an important role in the development of vascular-related disorders, such as atherosclerotic disease1. Oxidative stress ...
Foguet Coll, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Metabolism is a hallmark of life and underlies most biological processes in both health and disease. For instance, dysregulation of liver metabolism underlies multifactorial disorders such as diabetes ...
Castellá Giner, Moisés (Date of defense: 2023-09-29)
[emg] Alternative splicing (AS) is a gene expression regulatory mechanism that enables generation of multiple mRNA isoforms from a single gene which commonly are translated into proteins. This mechanism ...
Delgado Anglés, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2021-10-25)
Brown and beige adipose tissues are mediators of adaptive energy expenditure in mammals, in contrast with the energy storage role of white fat. Mitochondrial activity, including uncoupled respiration, ...
Gallego Pérez, Diego (Date of defense: 2022-09-29)
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are the equivalent to a computational microscope allowing us to interrogate molecules and their behaviour in complex systems. They are recognised as a valuable and ...
Quesada López, Tania Paloma (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
Obesity prevalence has tripled in the last fifty years. For this reason, it is considered the pandemic of the century. It is characterized by the accumulation of metabolic abnormalities triggered by an ...
Torrent Juan, Roger (Date of defense: 2016-06-02)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder, mainly characterized by a progressive loss of midbrain dopaminergic (DA) neurons, located in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), ...