• Assessment of Okadaic Acid Effects on Cytotoxicity, DNA Damage and DNA Repair in Human Cells 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Méndez, Josefina; Pásaro, Eduardo; Cemeli, Eduardo; Anderson, Diana; Laffon, Blanca (Elsevier, 2010-05-26)
      [Abstract] Okadaic acid (OA) is a phycotoxin produced by several types of dinoflagellates causing diarrheic shellfish poisoning (DSP) in humans. Symptoms induced by DSP toxins are mainly gastrointestinal, but the intoxication ...
    • Comparative Study on Effects of Two Different Types of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Human Neuronal Cells 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Costa, C.; Sharma, Vyom; Kiliç, Gözde; Pásaro, Eduardo; Teixeira, João Paulo; Dhawan, Alok; Laffon, Blanca (Elsevier, 2013-04-15)
      [Abstract] Titanium dioxide (TiO2) are among most frequently used nanoparticles (NPs). They are present in a variety of consumer products, including food industry in which they are employed as an additive. The potential ...
    • Cytogenetic Effects Induced by Prestige Oil on Human Populations: The Role of Polymorphisms in Genes Involved in Metabolism and DNA Repair 

      Pérez-Cadahía, Beatriz; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Pásaro, Eduardo; Méndez, Josefina (Elsevier, 2008-04-18)
      [Abstract] The spill from the oil tanker Prestige (NW Spain, November 2002) was perhaps the biggest ecological disaster that happened worldwide in the last decades. As a consequence of this catastrophe a general concern ...
    • 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, ...
    • Early Genotoxic and Cytotoxic Effects of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum lima in the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis 

      Prego-Faraldo, María Verónica; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca; Méndez, Josefina; Eirín-López, J.M. (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2016)
      Okadaic acid (OA) and dinophysistoxins (DTXs) are the main toxins responsible for diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) intoxications during harmful algal blooms (HABs). Although the genotoxic and cytotoxic responses to OA ...
    • 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 ...
    • Efectos de la terapia asistida con animales en personas con daño cerebral o lesión medular 

      Ávila Álvarez, Adriana I.; Torres-Tobío, Gabriel; Villazala Roca, Octavio; López-Cortón-Facal, Ana; Viana-Moldes, Inés; Saavedra-García, Miguel A.; Larrañeta-Alcalde, Lestonnac; Pérez Taboada, Luis (Fundación MAPFRE, 2013-04)
      [Resumen] Objetivo: Valorar los efectos terapéuticos obtenidos al aplicar un programa de terapia asistida con animales (TAA) en personas con daño cerebral o lesión medular. Material y método: Se realizó un estudio ...
    • Effects of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Exposure on Human Glial Cells and Zebrafish Embryos 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Alba-González, Anabel; Fernández-Bertólez, Natalia; Touzani, Assia; Ramos-Pan, Lucía; Reis, Ana Teresa; Moreda-Piñeiro, Jorge; Yáñez, Julián; Laffon, Blanca; Folgueira, Mónica (MDPI, 2023-08-01)
      [Abstract] Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are among the most widely used nanomaterials. They have multiple applications in cosmetics, textiles, paints, electronics and, recently, also in biomedicine. This extensive use ...
    • Endocrine and Immunological Parameters in Individuals Involved in Prestige Spill Cleanup Tasks Seven Years After the Exposure 

      Laffon, Blanca; Aguilera, Francisco; Ríos-Vázquez, Julia; García Lestón, Julia; Fuchs, Dietmar; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Pásaro, Eduardo (Elsevier, 2013-06-20)
      [Abstract] In November 2002 the oil tanker Prestige spilled 63,000tonnes of heavy oil off the northwest coast of Spain, impacting more than 1000km of coastline. A general concern led to a huge mobilization of human and ...
    • Epigenetics Is Implicated in the Basis of Gender Incongruence: An Epigenome-Wide Association Analysis 

      Ramirez, Karla; Fernández, Rosa; Collet, Sarah; Meltem, Kiyat; Delgado-Zayas, Enrique; Gómez-Gil, Esther; Van Den Eynde, Tibbert; T’Sjoen, Guy; Guillamon, Antonio; Mueller, Sven C.; Pásaro, Eduardo (2021)
      [Abstract] Introduction: The main objective was to carry out a global DNA methylation analysis in a population with gender incongruence before gender-affirming hormone treatment (GAHT), in comparison to a cisgender ...
    • Evaluation of Okadaic Acid-Induced Genotoxicity in Human Cells Using the Micronucleus Test and γH2AX Analysis 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca; Pásaro, Eduardo; Méndez, Josefina (Taylor and Francis, 2011-06-27)
      [Abstract] Marine algal blooms have become a public health concern due to increasing frequency in the environment and severity of exposure consequences. Human intoxications produced by phycotoxins occur globally through ...
    • 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 ...
    • Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Modifies the CpG Methylation Pattern of the ESR1 Gene Promoter After Six Months of Treatment in Transmen 

      Fernández, Rosa; Ramírez, Karla; Gómez-Gil, Esther; Cortés-Cortés, Joselyn; Mora, Mireia; Aranda, Gloria; Delgado Zayas, Enrique; Esteva, Isabel; Almaraz, Mari Cruz; Guillamón, Antonio; Pásaro, Eduardo (2020)
      [Abstract] Background Brain sexual differentiation is a process that results from the effects of sex steroids on the developing brain. Evidence shows that epigenetics plays a main role in the formation of enduring brain ...
    • Genetic Polymorphism in Cytochrome P450 1B1 in a Spanish Population [Short Communication] 

      Pérez-Cadahía, Beatriz; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Pásaro, Eduardo; Méndez, Josefina; Laffon, Blanca (Wiley, 2007-06-02)
    • 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 ...
    • Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes in SHSY5Y Cells Exposed to Okadaic Acid by Suppression Subtractive Hybridization 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Fernández-Tajes, Juan; Pásaro, Eduardo; Méndez, Josefina; Laffon, Blanca (Springer Nature, 2012-01-27)
      [Abstract] Background: Okadaic acid (OA), a toxin produced by several dinoflagellate species is responsible for frequent food poisonings associated to shellfish consumption. Although several studies have documented the OA ...
    • Implications of the Estrogen Receptor Coactivators SRC1 and SRC2 in the Biological Basis of Gender Incongruence 

      Del Valle Ramírez, Karla; Fernández, Rosa; Delgado-Zayas, Enrique; Gómez-Gil, Esther; Esteva, Isabel; Guillamon, Antonio; Pásaro, Eduardo (2021)
      [Abstract] Introduction Brain sexual differentiation results from the effects of sex steroids on the developing brain. The presumptive route for brain masculinization is the direct induction of gene expression via activation ...
    • Induction of Oxidative DNA Damage by the Marine Toxin Okadaic Acid Depends on Human Cell Type 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca; Pásaro, Eduardo; Cemeli, Eduardo; Anderson, Diana; Méndez, Josefina (Elsevier, 2011-03-01)
      [Abstract] The marine toxin okadaic acid (OA) is the main representative of diarrhoeic shellfish poisoning (DSP) toxins. Its ingestion induces nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal ache. It has also been found to trigger ...
    • Inter-Laboratory Variation in DNA Damage Using a Standard Comet Assay Protocol 

      Forchhammer, Lykke; Ersson, Clara; Loft, Steffen; Möller, Lennart; Godschalk, Roger W. L.; Schooten, Frederik J. van; Jones, George D. D.; Higgins, Jennifer A.; Cooke, Marcus; Mistry, Vilas; Karbaschi, Mahsa; Collins, Andrew R.; Azqueta, Amaya; Phillips, David H.; Sozeri, Osman; Routledge, Michael N.; Nelson-Smith, Kirsty; Riso, Patrizia; Porrini, Marisa; Matullo, Giuseppe; Allione, Alessandra; Stępnik, Maciej; Komorowska, Magdalena; Teixeira, João Paulo; Costa, Solange; Corcuera, Laura-Ana; López de Cerain, Adela; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Møller, Peter (Oxford University Press, 2012-07-27)
      [Abstract] There are substantial inter-laboratory variations in the levels of DNA damage measured by the comet assay. The aim of this study was to investigate whether adherence to a standard comet assay protocol would ...
    • 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 ...