• DNA Damage in Circulating Leukocytes Measured With the Comet Assay May Predict the Risk of Death 

      Bonassi, Stefano; Ceppi, Marcello; Møller, Peter; Azqueta, Amaya; Milić, Mirta; Neri, Monica; Brunborg, Gunnar; Godschalk, Roger; Koppen, Gudrun; Langie, Sabine; Teixeira, João; Bruzzone, Marco; Da Silva, Juliana; Benedetti, Danieli; Cavallo, Delia; Ursini, Cinzia Lucia; Giovannelli, Lisa; Moretti, Silvia; Riso, Patrizia; Del Bo’, Cristian; Russo, Patrizia; Dobrzyńska, Malgorzata; Goroshinskaya, Irina A.; Surikova, Ekaterina; Staruchova, Marta; Barančoková, Magdaléna; Volkovova, Katarina; Kažimírová, Alena; Smolkova, Bozena; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Pastor, Susana; Marcos, Ricard; Hernández, Alba; Gajski, Goran; Spremo-Potparević, Biljana; Živković, Lada; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Perdry, Hervé; Lebailly, Pierre; Pérez, Carlos L.; Başaran, Nurşen; Nemeth, Zsuzsanna; Sáfár, Anna; Dusinska, Maria; Collins, Andrew (2021)
      [Abstract] The comet assay or single cell gel electrophoresis, is the most common method used to measure strand breaks and a variety of other DNA lesions in human populations. To estimate the risk of overall mortality, ...
    • Exploring Early Detection of Frailty Syndrome in Older Adults: Evaluation of Oxi-Immune Markers, Clinical Parameters and Modifiable Risk Factors 

      Teixeira Gomes, Armanda; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Gostner, Johanna; Felder, Thomas; Costa, C.; Madureira, Joana; Fuchs, Dietmar; Teixeira, João; Costa, Solange (2021)
      [Abstract] Ageing is accompanied with a decline in several physiological systems. Frailty is an age-related syndrome correlated to the loss of homeostasis and increased vulnerability to stressors, which is associated with ...
    • Genotoxicity of TiO2 Nanoparticles in Four Different Human Cell Lines (A549, HEPG2, A172 and SH-SY5Y) 

      Brandão, Fátima; Fernández‐Bertólez, Natalia; Rosário, Fernada; Bessa, Maria João; Fraga, Sónia; Pásaro, Eduardo; Teixeira, João; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Costa, C. (2020)
      [Abstrac] Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) have a wide variety of applications in many consumer products, including as food additives, increasing the concern about the possible hazards that TiO2 NPs may pose to ...
    • Low Vitamin D Levels and Frailty Status in Older Adults: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 

      Marcos-Pérez, Diego; Sánchez-Flores, María; Bonassi, Stefano; Costa, Solange; Teixeira, João; Fernández-Tajes, Juan; Pásaro, Eduardo; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca (2020)
      [Abstract] Serum vitamin D deficiency is widespread among older adults and is a potential modifiable risk factor for frailty. Moreover, frailty has been suggested as an intermediate step in the association between low ...
    • Minimum Information for Reporting on the Comet Assay (MIRCA): Recommendations for Describing Comet Assay Procedures and Results 

      Møller, Peter; Azqueta, Amaya; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Koppen, Gudrun; Bonassi, Stefano; Milić, Mirta; Gajski, Goran; Costa, Solange; Teixeira, João; Pereira, Cristiana; Dusinska, Maria; Godschalk, Roger; Brunborg, Gunnar; Gützkow, Kristine Bjerve; Giovannelli, Lisa; Cooke, Marcus S.; Richling, Elke; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Başaran, Nurşen; Del Bo’, Cristian; Zegura, Bojana; Novak, Matjaz; Stopper, Helga; Vodička, Pavel; Vodenkova, Sona; Andrade, Vanessa Moraes de; Sramkova, Monika; Gabelova, Alena; Collins, Andrew; Langie, Sabine (2020)
      [Abstract] The comet assay is a widely used test for the detection of DNA damage and repair activity. However, there are interlaboratory differences in reported levels of baseline and induced damage in the same experimental ...
    • Salivary Leucocytes as In Vitro Model to Evaluate Nanoparticle-Induced DNA Damage 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Fernández-Bertólez, Natalia; Lema-Arranz, Carlota; Rodríguez-Fernández, Raquel; Pásaro, Eduardo; Reis, Ana Teresa; Teixeira, João; Costa, C.; Laffon, Blanca (MDPI, 2021-07-27)
      [Abstract] Metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) have a wide variety of applications in many consumer products and biomedical practices. As a result, human exposure to these nanomaterials is highly frequent, becoming an issue ...
    • Suitability of the In Vitro Cytokinesis-Block Micronucleus Test for Genotoxicity Assessment of TiO2 Nanoparticles on SH-SY5Y Cells 

      Fernández-Bertólez, Natalia; Brandão, Fátima; Costa, C.; Pásaro, Eduardo; Teixeira, João; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa (2021)
      [Abstract] Standard toxicity tests might not be fully adequate for evaluating nanomaterials since their unique features are also responsible for unexpected interactions. The in vitro cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) ...
    • The hCOMET Project: International Database Comparison of Results with the Comet Assay in Human Biomonitoring. Baseline Frequency of DNA Damage and Effect of Main Confounders 

      Milić, Mirta; Ceppi, Marcello; Bruzzone, Marco; Azqueta, Amaya; Brunborg, Gunnar; Godschalk, Roger; Koppen, Gudrun; Langie, Sabine; Møller, Peter; Alija, Avdulla; Anderson, Diana; Andreoli, Cristina; Asllani, Fisnik; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Buschini, Annamaria; Cavallo, Delia; Costa, Solange; Da Silva, Juliana; Del Boˊ, Cristian; Djelić, Ninoslav; Dobrzyńska, Malgorzata; Dvořáková, Monika; Gajski, Goran; Galati, Serena; García Lima, Omar; Giovannelli, Lisa; Goroshinskaya, Irina A.; Grindel, Annemarie; Hernández, Alba; Hernández, Carlos; Holven, Kirsten B.; Ibero-Baraibar, Idoia; Ottestad, Inger; Kadioglu, Ela; Kuznetsova, Elena; Ladeira, Carina; Laffon, Blanca; Lamonaca, Palma; Lebailly, Pierre; Louro, Henriqueta; Mandina Cardoso, Tania; Marcon, Francesca; Marcos, Ricard; Moretti, Massimo; Moretti, Silvia; Najafzadeh, Mojgan; Nemeth, Zsuzsanna; Neri, Monica; Novotna, Bozena; Orlow, Irene; Paduchova, Zuzana; Pastor, Susana; Perdry, Hervé; Spremo-Potparević, Biljana; Ramadhani, Dwi; Riso, Patrizia; Rohr, Paula; Rojas, Emilio; Rossner, Pavel; Sardas, Semra; Silva, Maria João; Sirota, Nikolay; Smolkova, Bozena; Staruchova, Marta; Stetina, Rudolf; Stopper, Helga; Ursini, Cinzia Lucia; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Valverde, Mahara; Volkovova, Katarina; Wagner, Karl-Heinz; Živković, Lada; Dušinská, Maria; Collins, Andrew R.; Bonassi, Stefano; Teixeira, João; Andrade, Vanessa Moraes de; Bankoglu, Ezgi Eylül; Barančoková, Magdaléna; Pereira, Cristiana; Dimitrijević-Srećković, Vesna; Sáfár, Anna; Surikova, Ekaterina; Vodička, Pavel; Başaran, Nurşen; Costa, C.; Ďuračková, Zdeňka; Kažimírová, Alena; Gützkow, Kristine Bjerve; Ulven, Stine Marie (2021)
      [Abstract] The alkaline comet assay, or single cell gel electrophoresis, is one of the most popular methods for assessing DNA damage in human population. One of the open issues concerning this assay is the identification ...