Corraliza Márquez, Ana Maria (Date of defense: 2019-10-02)
Crohn’s disease [CD] is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestinal tract with considerable heterogeneity among affected patients in terms of disease phenotype and therapeutic responses. Despite ...
Bartoll, Xavier (Date of defense: 2019-09-26)
The main objective of the thesis, organised along four different research chapters, is to analyse how labour market conditions are associated with different health outcomes and how the economic crisis ...
Tarrés Gatius, Mireia (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
Sub-anesthetic doses of ketamine evoke rapid and persistent antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant depressed patients through still poorly-known mechanisms. Ketamine also evokes transient ...
Lobo Ruiz, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2019-05-10)
Peptides and proteins are essential substances for living organisms, as they can be found in every cell and tissue and are involved in many biological and physiological processes. Given their intrinsic ...
Gabbanelli, Luciano (Date of defense: 2019-11-04)
For ninety years we have known that our universe is in expansion. Cosmological data favor an unknown form of intrinsic and fundamental uniform energy contributing approximately 68% of the total energy ...
Mir Morro, Bartomeu (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
Given the increasing interest in i-motif structures, obtaining such structures as well as detailed structural information under physiological conditions have become hot topics in the structural biology ...
Agramunt Pi, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
2,2-Disubstituted cyclopent-4-ene-1,3-diones (CPDs), which have been as non-hydrolysable maleimide analogs, have been found to possess an unexpected reactivity with N-terminal cysteines. Whilst maleimides ...
Mor Crespo, Roger (Date of defense: 2019-06-18)
AIMS: We develop a new theoretical framework to generate Besançon Galaxy Model Fast Approximate Simulations (BGM FASt) to address fundamental questions of the Galactic structure and evolution ...