Santa Bárbara Ruiz, Paula (Date of defense: 2017-07-28)
Countless environmental aggressors could damage the integrity of tissues and organs. In humans, the limited regenerative ability prevents often the recovery of injured tissues, but this is not the case ...
Fábrega Fernández, María José (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
Gut microbiota play a critical role in maintaining human intestinal homeostasis and host health. Bacterial extracellular vesicles are key players in bacteria-host communication as they allow delivery ...
Fàbrega Ferrer, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
The Escherichia coli infecting T7 bacteriophage shares a common dsDNA packaging mechanism with other bacteriophages of the Caudovirales order, Herpesviruses and Adenoviruses. The packaging machinery ...
Mir Bonnín, Joan Francesc (Date of defense: 2016-07-11)
Previous studies have reported the importance of carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) 1A as an essential part of downstream ghrelin signaling in the central nervous system (CNS) for the control of food ...
Almacellas i Canals, Eugènia (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Lysosomes are the primary degradative organelles in mammalian cells. Indeed, lysosome enzymatic cocktail allows the degradation of a vast repertoire of cellular material through different converging ...
Martínez Delgado, Paula (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
Mitosis is a process that ensure the correct distribution of the chromosomes between the two newly generated cells, is tightly regulated by two main processes, protein degradation controlled by the APC ...
Bartrolí Comellas, Mariona (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Targeting cancer metastasis has gained considerable importance in the recent years when aiming to increase patients’ overall survival. In Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), the discovery of metastatic biomarkers ...