Chivite Araiz, Íñigo (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)
Blood vessels distribute nutrients and oxygen to every single cell in the body. Endothelial cells define the vessel wall, and thus they are ideally located to crucially modulate nutrient availability ...
Aerts, Céline (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified over 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), affecting 1.5 billion people worldwide (Uniting to combat neglected tropical diseases, 2017). While being ...
Santiago Vacas, Evelyn (Date of defense: 2020-11-06)
La hipertensión pulmonar (HP) y la disfunción del ventrículo derecho (VD) son dos factores pronósticos independientes en pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca (IC). Las hipótesis de esta tesis son: 1) ...
Moncunill i Mira, Jordi (Date of defense: 2020-11-20)
En els darrers anys, diversos estudis han investigat la possible relació entre la malaltia periodontal en dones embarassades i el part prematur. Una de les dificultats a què s’enfronten aquests estudis ...
Velasco de Andrés, María (Date of defense: 2020-02-05)
CD5 is a scavenger receptor mainly expressed on lymphoid (T and B1a) cells but also on some minor myeloid (Mϕ and DCs) cell subsets. It is long known to negatively modulate differentiation and activation ...
Amorós Reboredo, Patrícia (Date of defense: 2020-11-26)
ANTECEDENTS DEL TEMA En els últims anys els agents antivirals directes aprovats pel tractament de l’hepatitis C han permès l’accés al tractament a grups de pacients que anteriorment no es tractaven pel ...
Pell Vidal, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-11-19)
Obesity is reaching pandemic dimensions and is an established instigator of many diseases, such as non alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most prevalent liver disease worldwide. Most studies in this ...
Profitós Pelejà, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)
ZEB1 and ZEB2 are two transcription factors best known for their role driving a dedifferentiation process, commonly referred as epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). This process is carried out ...
Castellà Creus, Mònica (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
ANTECEDENTES: El proceso enfermero es el método de trabajo sistematizado que posibilita que las enfermeras sigan el razonamiento de la metodología científica. Consta de cinco fases: valoración, diagnóstico, ...
Barbero Castillo, Almudena (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
Throughout various brain states, billions of neurons interact resulting in a variety of cortical rhythms accompanied by switches between behavioral states (Gervasoni et al., 2004). As a result ...