Betancourt Henríquez, Pablo Andrés (Date of defense: 2019-10-21)
Bacteria and their sub-products are the main cause of the occurrence and perpetuation of endodontic infection. However, only a few bacterial species are seen as responsible of persistent endodontic ...
Ortega Cano, Juan Alberto (Date of defense: 2011-09-30)
Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a chemokine which levels are regulated by neuronal activity and could act as a sensor in front of distinct physiologic stimulus, activating the transcription ...
López Begines, Santiago (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
In photoreceptor cells of the retina, light triggers a protein G-mediated enzymatic cascade that leads to hydrolysis of cGMP. The drop in cGMP levels causes the closure of cGMP-channel at the plasma ...
Sans Serramitjana, Eulàlia (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)
P. aeruginosa is one of the major opportunistic pathogen colonizing the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and causing chronic airways infection. Once P.aeruginosa established chronically ...
Jorba Pedrosa, Marta (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
INTRODUCTION: Antimicrobial resistance is one of the world’s major challenges in both microbiology and public health since infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria are reaching alarming levels. ...
Rodilla Martín, Ananda Marina (Date of defense: 2018-04-10)
Oral and lung cancer are included in the most prevalent respiratory diseases, being the latter one of the main causes of mortality worldwide. Despite new advances in diagnosis and clinical care, success ...
López del Hoyo, Natalia (Date of defense: 2014-03-14)
In the last two decades, it has been done a thoroughly research about the role of Guanylate Cyclase Activating Proteins (GCAPs) in photoreceptor cells of the retina as activity regulators of Retinal ...
Godoy Marín, Héctor (Date of defense: 2021-09-29)
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia affecting 1 of every 20 persons older than 65 years and 9% of the octogenarians, and extensive research efforts have been undertaken to identify ...
Fusté i Domínguez, Ester (Date of defense: 2012-11-19)
Resistance to antimicrobials is a well-known phenomenon leading to difficulties in the treatment of infectious diseases. The genetic determinants of such resistance are in general well understood: ...
Rudilla Mateo, Héctor (Date of defense: 2019-01-18)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are nosocomial opportunistic pathogens causing a wide variety of both acute and chronic infections, such as pneumonia, bacteraemia, and urinary tract ...