• Applicability of EU(7)-PIM criteria in cross-national studies in European countries 

      Fialová, Daniela; Brkić, Jovana; Laffon, Blanca; Reissigová, Jindra; Grešáková, Silvia; Dogan, Soner; Doro, Peter; Tasić, Ljiljana; Marinković, Valentina; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Costa, Solange; Kostřiba, Jan (2019)
      [Abstract] Background: The European Union (EU)(7)-PIM (potentially inappropriate medication) list presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date tool for evaluation of PIM prescribing in Europe; however, several ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Neuronal Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity Induced by Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Costa, C.; Kiliç, Gözde; Costa, Solange; Pásaro, Eduardo; Laffon, Blanca; Teixeira, João Paulo (Elsevier, 2013-03-26)
      [Abstract] Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are one of the most abundantly used nanomaterials in consumer products and biomedical applications. As a result, human exposure to these NPs is highly frequent and they have ...
    • Okadaic Acid Induces Morphological Changes, Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Alterations in Different Human Cell Types 

      Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca; Pásaro, Eduardo; Méndez, Josefina (Royal Society of Chemistry (Gran Bretaña), 2011-03-28)
      [Abstract] Okadaic acid (OA) is a marine toxin produced by dinoflagellate species which is frequently accumulated in molluscs usual in the human diet. The exact action mechanism of OA has not been described yet and the ...