• Ambient air pollution, urban green space and childhood overweight and obesity: a health impact assessment for Barcelona, Spain

  Rigau Sabadell, Mariona (2022)

  Background: Recent studies have shown that high levels of air pollution and lack of urban green spaces (UGS) have an impact on childhood overweight/ obesity, but, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated the attributable ...
• Study of the mechanism underlying the effect of 5-HT in microglial processes motility

  del Río i Torné, Carla (2022-10-26)

  Microglia, the brain's resident macrophages, have a distinct ramified morphology orchestrated by repeated cycles of extension and retraction of their long thin processes, allowing them to continuously monitor their ...
• Characterizing cortical bioenergetics in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

  Ausellé Bosch, Sira (2022-10-18)

  Alzheimer's Disease (AD) currently represents the most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide. The complete underlying mechanisms of its physiopathology are still unknown, but brain bioenergetics and the endocannabinoid ...
• Relació entre estrès i ansietat de la persona gestant en la etapa prenatal i alteracions congènites en el recent nascut

  Merroun Mazougi, Firdaous (2022-07-27)

  Introducció: Al llarg del període de gestació es duen a terme una sèrie de canvis hormonals, fisiològics i psicològics en les persones gestants. Aquesta és una etapa complexa en la que les persones gestants poden arribar ...
• Aturem la transmissió per mosquits: disseny d’un projecte - a partir de la Guia ABPxODS - pel desenvolupament de les competències clau per a la sostenibilitat

  Magrinyà Estrada, Joan (2022-07-27)

  Els problemes d’abast mundial actuals exigeixen un canvi urgent en la nostra manera de pensar i actuar. Per aquest motiu, cal entendre l’educació com un instrument essencial per la transformació social cap a la consecució ...
• Global prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment

  Díaz Guindo, Marta (2021)

  Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia worldwide. AD is characterized histopathologically by senile plaques composed of amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles consisting of aggregated ...
• Elucidating the pathophysiological role of the apoptosis inducing factor 1 (AIF1) in Alzheimer's disease: a review of its participation in other pathologies

  Solé Ariza, Aina (2021)

  Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of age-related dementia, whose progression and development are explained by two well-based hypotheses. The amyloid cascade hypothesis proposes the aggregation of the amyloid ...
• Study of the molecular basis of congenital disorders of glycosylation using yeast as a model organism

  Guiu Gonzalez, Neus (2021)

  Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) are a group of inherited human disorders caused by defects on protein glycosylation. Rft1-CDG is a form of CDG caused by mutations in the gene RFT1. Rft1 is a conserved protein ...
• Inhibition of TELO2 sensitizes colorectal cancer cells to chemotherapies

  Ortiz Gràcia, Alba (2019)

  Colorectal cancer is the 2nd most killing cancer around the world. Because treatments generally involve DNA damage, high toxicity and undesirable effects are frequently observed, which lead to treatment suspension. Moreover, ...
• The role of the neuroimmune system in the pathogenesis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

  Sopena Rios, Maria (2020)

  Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) results from maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. Yet preventable, it still is very prevalent as it is estimated that 50% of the women of childbearing age consume alcohol ...
• Antimicrobial stewardship strategies against extended-spectrum β-lactamase-carrying enterobacterales: a review

  Rovira i Plujà, Jana (2021)

  Multidrug-resistant and extremely-drug resistant (MDR/XDR) Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) are responsible of most healthcare-associated infections worldwide. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and infection control strategies ...
• EcR depletion affects ovarian follicle differentiation and oocyte growth in the cockroach Blattella germanica

  Rumbo Roig, Mireia (2020)

  Ecdysteroid hormones in insects regulate a diverse amount of physiological processes during developmental and adult stages. The molecular basis of ecdysteroid signalling has been deeply studied in holometabolous insects ...
• The role of Nuclear factor I A (Nfia) during late embryonic neurogenesis

  Río Bergé, Clàudia (2021)

  The Nuclear factor I A (Nfia) is a transcription factor which seems to be a key element during late embryonic brain neurogenesis. Since most of the studies about the role of Nfia in the Central Nervous System (CNS) are ...
• Antropología de la Guerra Civil Española en Cataluña: estudio de la exhumación de fosas e identificación de víctimas desde 1999 a 2020

  Sevillano Oriola, Laia (2020)

  La Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939) y el principio de la dictadura franquista dejaron muchas víctimas fruto de la violencia y represión, muchas de las cuales fueron enterradas en fosas comunes. Concretamente en Cataluña, ...
• Towards a more sustainable university: exploring PBL-SDG innovative strategies to contribute to the sustainable development

  Llerena Bastida, Maria (2020)

  With a view to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), UNESCO has been promoting the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a transformational tool to educate critically literate, socially connected and ethically ...
• Implementation of targeted proteomics methods for the characterization of peptides and proteins in liquid biopsies

  Vila Escutia, Laia (2020)

  Targeted proteomics methods emerged to detect and quantify well-defined sets of peptides with a high degree of specificity and sensitivity. Internal standard triggered-PRM (IS-PRM) was designed to increase the number of ...
• Effects of variability in second language learning in adults

  Sánchez López, Rebeca (2020)

  Learning a second language is a difficult task for adults. The present thesis explored how variability in the number of teachers influences second language learning and how this process is modulated by the similarity of ...
• Revisió i actualització de les entrades de fàrmacs indispensables en el nou Diccionari enciclopèdic de medicina (DEMCAT)

  Cerrillo Moya, Carlota; Escala Crusells, Clara (2020)

  D’ençà que es va publicar el Diccionari de medicina de Manuel Corachan, l’any 1936, la terminologia mèdica en català no ha evolucionat a un ritme constant; ans al contrari, ha hagut de superar nombrosos entrebancs. Gairebé ...
• Pavel Florensky, reverse perspective and the neurosciences

  Díaz Calvete, Júlia (2019)

  The way we perceive the world has always been a major concern of philosophy and art. Pavel Florensky was a Russian polymath who wrote Reverse Perspective (1920), a rather unique essay on perception and art. His analysis ...
• Spontaneous neuronal activity is correlated to statistical learning performance: computation of ALFF and fALFF indices on resting-state fMRI

  Sanahuja Irene, Sandra (2019)

  Statistical learning (SL) is a mechanism that enables us to detect and learn probabilistic regularities and patterns from the environment. Previous studies have explored the role of SL in resting-state functional connectivity, ...

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