• Author Correction: DNA damage in circulating leukocytes measured with the comet assay may predict the risk of death (Scientific Reports, (2021), 11, 1, (16793), 10.1038/s41598-021-95976-7) 

      Bonassi, Stefano; Ceppi, Marcello; Møller, Peter; Azqueta, Amaya; Milić, Mirta; Neri, Monica; Brunborg, Gunnar; Godschalk, Roger; Koppen, Gudrun; Langie, Sabine A. S.; Teixeira, João Paulo; 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 I.; Staruchova, Marta; Barančokova, Magdalena; Volkovova, Katarina; Kažimirova, 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; Perez, Carlos L.; Basaran, Nursen; Nemeth, Zsuzsanna; Safar, Anna; Dusinska, Maria; Collins, Andrew Richard (Journal article, 2021)
    • Collection and storage of human white blood cells for analysis of DNA damage and repair activity using the comet assay in molecular epidemiology studies 

      Møller, Peter; Bankoglu, Ezgi Eyluel; Stopper, Helga; Giovannelli, Lisa; Ladeira, Carina; Koppen, Gudrun; Gajski, Goran; Collins, Andrew Richard; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Laffon, Blanca; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Perdry, Hervé; Del Bo, Cristian; Langie, Sabine A.S.; Dusinska, Maria; Azqueta, Amaya (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      DNA damage and repair activity are often assessed in blood samples from humans in different types of molecular epidemiology studies. However, it is not always feasible to analyse the s#38les on the day of collection without ...
    • DNA damage in circulating leukocytes measured with the comet assay may predict the risk of death 

      Bonassi, Stefano; Ceppi, Marcello; Møller, Peter; Azqueta, Amaya; Milic, Mirta; Neri, Monica; Brunborg, Gunnar; Godschalk, Roger; Koppen, Gudrun; Langie, Sabine A. S.; Teixeira, João Paulo; Bruzzone, Marco; Da Silva, Juliana; Benedetti, Danieli; Cavallo, Delia; Ursini, Cinzia Lucia; Giovannelli, Lisa; Moretti, Silvia; Riso, Patrizia; Del Bo, Cristian; Russo, Patrizia; Dobrzynska, Malgorzata; Goroshinskaya, Irina A.; Surikova, Ekaterina I.; Staruchova, Marta; Barancokova, Magdalena; Volkovova, Katarina; Kažimirova, Alena; Smolkova, Bozena; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Pastor, Susana; Marcos, Ricard; Hernández, Alba; Gajski, Goran; Spremo-Potparević, Biljana; Zivkovic, Lada; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Perdry, Hervé; Lebailly, Pierre; Perez, Carlos L.; Basaran, Nursen; Nemeth, Zsuzsanna; Safar, Anna; Dusinska, Maria; Collins, Andrew Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      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, mortality by ...
    • Do cytotoxicity and cell death cause false positive results in the in vitro comet assay? 

      Azqueta, Amaya; Stopper, Helga; Zegura, Bojana; Dusinska, Maria; Møller, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The comet assay is used to measure DNA damage induced by chemical and physical agents. High concentrations of test agents may cause cytotoxicity or cell death, which may give rise to false positive results in the comet ...
    • 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; Teixeira, João Paulo; Alija, Avdulla; Anderson, Diana; Andrade, Vanessa; Andreoli, Cristina; Asllani, Fisnik; Eyluel Bangkoglu, Ezgi; Barancokova, Magdalena; Basaran, Nursen; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Buschini, Annamaria; Cavallo, Delia; Costa Pererira, Cristina; Costa, Carla; Costa, Solange; Da Silva, Juliana; Del Bo’, Cristian; Dimitrijevic Sreckovic, Vesna; Djelic, Ninoslav; Dobrzynska, Malgorzata; Duracková, Zdenka; Dvorakova, Monika; Gajski, Goran; Galati, Serena; García Lima, Omar; Giovannelli, Lisa; Goroshinskaya, Irina A.; Grindel, Annemarie; Gützkow, Kristine Bjerve; Hernández, Alba; Hernandez, Carlos; Holven, Kirsten Bjørklund; Ibero-Baraibar, Idoia; Ottestad, Inger Olaug; Kadioglu, Ela; Kazimirova, Alena; Kuznetsova, Elena; Ladeira, Carina; Laffon, Blanca; Lamonaca, Palma; Lebailly, Pierre; Louro, Henriqueta; Cardoso, Tania Mandina; 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; Safar, Anna; Sardas, Semra; Silva, Maria João; Sirota, Nikolay; Smolkova, Bozena; Staruchova, Marta; Stetina, Rudolf; Stopper, Helga; Surikova, Ekaterina I.; Ulven, Stine Marie; Ursini, Cinzia Lucia; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Valverde, Mahara; Vodička, Pavel; Volkovova, Katarina; Wagner, Karl-Heinz; Zivkovic, Lada; Dusinska, Maria; Collins, Andrew Richard; Bonassi, Stefano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      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 of those ...
    • 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; Milic, Mirta; Gajski, Goran; Costa, Solange; Teixeira, João Paulo; Pereira, Cristiana Costa; Dusinska, Maria; Godschalk, Roger; Brunborg, Gunnar; Gutzkow, Kristine Bjerve; Giovannelli, Lisa; Cooke, Marcus S.; Richling, Elke; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Basaran, Nursen; Del Bo, Cristian; Zegura, Bojana; Novak, Matjaz; Stopper, Helga; Vodicka, Pavel; Vodenkova, Sona; de Andrade, Vanessa Moraes; Srámková, Monika; Gábelová, Alena; Collins, Andrew Richard; Langie, Sabine A.S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      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 systems. ...
    • New approach methodologies to facilitate and improve the hazard assessment of non-genotoxic carcinogens—a PARC project 

      Audebert, Marc; Assmann, Ann-Sophie; Azqueta, Amaya; Babica, Pavel; Benfenati, Emilio; Bortoli, Sylvie; Bouwman, Peter; Braeuning, Albert; Burgdorf, Tanja; Coumoul, Xavier; Debizet, Kloé; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Carcinogenic chemicals, or their metabolites, can be classified as genotoxic or non-genotoxic carcinogens (NGTxCs). Genotoxic compounds induce DNA damage, which can be detected by an established in vitro and in vivo battery ...
    • An optimized comet-based in vitro DNA repair assay to assess base and nucleotide excision repair activity 

      Vodenkova, Sona; Azqueta, Amaya; Collins, Andrew Richard; Dusinska, Maria; Gaivao, Isabel; Møller, Peter; Opattová, Alena; Vodicka, Pavel; Godschalk, Roger W. L.; Langie, Sabine A.S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
    • Technical recommendations to perform the alkaline standard and enzyme-modified comet assay in human biomonitoring studies 

      Azqueta, Amaya; Muruzabal, Damian; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Milic, Mirta; Dusinska, Maria; Brunborg, Gunnar; Møller, Peter; Collins, Andrew R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • The use of the comet assay for the evaluation of the genotoxicity of nanomaterials 

      Azqueta, Amaya; Dusinska, Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)