• Assessing the in Vitro Toxicity of Airborne (Nano)Particles to the Human Respiratory System: From Basic to Advanced Models [Review] 

  Bessa, Maria João; Brandão, Fátima; Rosário, Fernanda; Moreira, Luciana Maria Vaz; Reis, Ana Teresa; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca; Fraga, S.; Teixeira, Joao (Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-24)

  [Abstract] Several studies have been conducted to address the potential adverse health risks attributed to exposure to nanoscale materials. While in vivo studies are fundamental for identifying the relationship between ...

• 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 ...

• Editorial: Research in Transgender Healthcare: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going? 

  Fernández, Rosa; Burke, Sarah M. (2022)

  [Abstract] Gender incongruence (GI) is defined as “an individual’s discontent with their assigned gender and their identification with a gender other than that associated with their birth sex based on physical sex ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

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