• Suitability of Salivary Leucocytes to Assess DNA Repair Ability in Human Biomonitoring Studies by the Challenge-Comet Assay 

      Fernández-Bertólez, Natalia; Lema Arranz, Carlota; Fraga, S.; Teixeira, Joao; Pasaro, Eduardo; Lorenzo-López, Laura; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca (Elsevier, 2022)
      [Abstract] The challenge-comet assay is a simple but effective approach that provides a quantitative and functional determination of DNA repair ability, and allows to monitor the kinetics of repair process. Peripheral blood ...
    • Toxoplasma gondii IgG serointensity is positively associated with frailty 

      Mohyuddin, Hira; Laffon, Blanca; Teixeira, Joao P.; Costa, Solange; Teixeira-Gomes, Armanda; Pásaro, Eduardo; Constantine, Niel; Dagdag, Aline; Ortmeyer, Heidi K.; Tizenberg, Boris; Afram, Liubov; Yen, Poyu; Marano, Christopher; Lowry, Christopher A.; Hoisington, Andrew J.; RachBeisel, Jill A.; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Lema-Arranz, Carlota; Fernández-Bertólez, Natalia; Maseda, Ana; Millán-Calenti, José Carlos; Kovacs, Elizabeth J.; Gostner, Johanna M.; Fuchs, Dietmar; Brenner, Lisa A.; Lorenzo-López, Laura; Postolache, Teodor T. (Oxford University Press, 2023-11-06)
      [Abstract] Background: Persistent inflammation related to aging ("inflammaging") is exacerbated by chronic infections and contributes to frailty in older adults. We hypothesized associations between Toxoplasma gondii (T. ...