Listar Grupos de investigación por autor "Laffon, Blanca"
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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 ... -
Are immune activation and inflammaging involved in the physiopathology of frailty in older adults?
Laffon, Blanca; Marcos-Pérez, Diego; Sánchez-Flores, María; Maseda, Ana; Lorenzo-López, Laura; Millán-Calenti, José Carlos; Gostner, Johanna; Fuchs, Dietmar; Pásaro, Eduardo; Valdiglesias, Vanessa (De Gruyter, 2019-06-15) -
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 degree of urbanization and lifetime longest-held occupation on cognitive impairment prevalence in an older spanish population
Lorenzo-López, Laura; Millán-Calenti, José Carlos; López-López, Rocío; Diego-Díez, Clara; Laffon, Blanca; Pásaro, Eduardo; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Maseda, Ana (Frontiers, 2017-02-13)[Abstract] Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of cognitive impairment in rural and urban elderly populations and to examine the relationship between lifetime occupation and general cognitive performance. A cross-sectional ... -
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 ... -
Exploring genetic outcomes as frailty biomakers
Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Sánchez-Flores, María; Marcos-Pérez, Diego; Lorenzo-López, Laura; Maseda, Ana; Millán-Calenti, José Carlos; Pásaro, Eduardo; Laffon, Blanca (Oxford, 2018-04-19)[Abstract] Frailty has emerged as a reliable measure of the aging process. Because the early detection of frailty is crucial to prevent or even revert it, the use of biomarkers would allow an earlier and more objective ... -
Frailty status in older adults is related to alterations in indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 and guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase I enzymatic pathways
Marcos Pérez, Diego; Sánchez-Flores, María; Maseda, Ana; Lorenzo-López, Laura; Millán-Calenti, José Carlos; Strasser, Barbara; Gostner, Johanna; Fuchs, Dietmar; Pásaro, Eduardo; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca (Elsevier para AMDA (The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Cara Medicine), 2017-08-08) -
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 ... -
Immune activation in older-aged individuals is associated with genetic instability (or vice versa)
Gostner, Johanna; Sánchez-Flores, María; Marcos-Pérez, Diego; Lorenzo-López, Laura; Maseda, Ana; Millán-Calenti, José Carlos; Fuchs, Dietmar; Bonassi, Stefano; Pásaro, Eduardo; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa (De Gruyter, 2019-06-15) -
Immune biomarkers in older adults: role of physical activity
Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Sánchez-Flores, María; Maseda, Ana; Lorenzo-López, Laura; Marcos Pérez, Diego; López-Cortón-Facal, Ana; Strasser, Barbara; Fuchs, Dietmar; Laffon, Blanca; Millán-Calenti, José Carlos; Pásaro, Eduardo (Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-19)[Abstract] Aging is associated with a decline in the normal functioning of the immune system. Several studies described the relationship between immunological alterations, including immunosenescence and inflammation, and ...