• Socioeconomic determinants of early neurodevelopment

  Vallet Casadevall, Julieta (2023)

  Socioeconomic status (SES) can be determinant for human health. Through different mechanisms, a person’s educational level, occupational status and income can define their physical and mental well-being. Considering that ...
• Assessment of the optical genome mapping technique in splenic marginal zone lymphoma: a comparison with cytogenomic data

  Teixidó Mulet, Mar (2023)

  Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is a genetically heterogeneous entity, entailing the need for further genetic characterization to deepen the knowledge of its prognosis and optimize its diagnosis. Karyotype and FISH ...
• Optimization of sTREM2 ELISA to understand the role of microglia in Alzheimer's disease

  Miret Milian, Maria (2023)

  Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), a microglial receptor, plays a crucial role in the innate immune response in Alzheimer's disease (AD), aiding in the clearance of amyloid beta plaques and preventing ...
• Hindbrain rhombomere centers harbor an heterogenous population of dividing progenitors

  Hernández Martin, Ariadna (2023)

  During embryonic development, tissue growth and morphogenesis are interconnected processes and their regulation is essential to correctly develop an organism. This regulation involves the controlled production of different ...
• De la neurociència a les aules: impacte de les competències socioemocionals en la creativitat i la cognició

  Pocurull Masferrer, Aina (2022)

  Les emocions tenen un impacte extens i substancial en els processos cognitius, i el seu paper en la cognició i la creativitat és estudiat per diverses línies de recerca, des de l’àmbit educatiu fins al camp de la neurociència. ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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