• Advanced Respiratory Models for Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials. Performance of Mono-, Co- and Tricultures 

      Camassa, Laura Maria Azzurra; Elje, Elisabeth; Mariussen, Espen; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Dusinska, Maria; Zienolddiny-Narui, Shanbeh; Rundén-Pran, Elise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Advanced in vitro models are needed to support next-generation risk assessment (NGRA), moving from hazard assessment based mainly on animal studies to the application of new alternative methods (NAMs). Advanced models must ...
    • The alamar blue assay in the context of safety testing of nanomaterials 

      Longhin, Eleonora Marta; El Yamani, Naouale; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Alamar Blue (AB) assay is widely used to investigate cytotoxicity, cell proliferation and cellular metabolic activity within different fields of toxicology. The use of the assay with nanomaterials (NMs) entails specific ...
    • The colony forming efficiency assay for toxicity testing of nanomaterials – Modifications for higher-throughput 

      Rundén-Pran, Elise; Mariussen, Espen; El Yamani, Naouale; Elje, Elisabeth; Longhin, Eleonora Marta (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      To cope with the high number of nanomaterials manufactured, it is essential to develop high-throughput methods for in vitro toxicity screening. At the same time, the issue with interference of the nanomaterial (NM) with ...
    • Current status and future challenges of genotoxicity OECD Test Guidelines for nanomaterials: a workshop report 

      Doak, Shareen H.; Andreoli, Cristina; Burgum, Michael J.; Chaudhry, Qasim; Bleeker, Eric; Bossa, Cecilia; Domenech, Josefa; Drobne, Damjana; Fessard, Valérie; Jeliazkova, Nina; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Stepnik, Maciej; El Yamani, Naouale; Catalán, Julia; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Genotoxicity testing for nanomaterials remains challenging as standard testing approaches require some adaptation, and further development of nano-specific OECD Test Guidelines (TGs) and Guidance Documents (GDs) are needed. ...
    • Decitabine potentiates efficacy of doxorubicin in a preclinical trastuzumab-resistant HER2-positive breast cancer models 

      Buociková, Verona; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Pilalis, Eleftherios; Mastrokalou, Chara; Miklíková, Svetlana; Cihova, Marina; Poturnayova, Alexandra; Mackova, Katarina; Bábelová, Andrea; Trnkova, Lenka; El Yamani, Naouale; Zheng, Congying; Rios-Mondragon, Ivan; Labudova, Martina; Csaderova, Lucia; Kuracinova, Kristina Mikus; Makovicky, Peter; Kučerová, Lucia; Matuskova, Miroslava; Cimpan, Mihaela-Roxana; Dusinska, Maria; Babal, Pavel; Chatziioannou, Aristotelis; Gábelová, Alena; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Smolkova, Bozena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Acquired drug resistance and metastasis in breast cancer (BC) are coupled with epigenetic deregulation of gene expression. Epigenetic drugs, aiming to reverse these aberrant transcriptional patterns and sensitize cancer ...
    • Decitabine-induced DNA methylation-mediated transcriptomic reprogramming in human breast cancer cell lines; the impact of DCK overexpression 

      Buociková, Verona; Tyciakova, Sylvia; Pilalis, Eleftherios; Mastrokalou, Chara; Urbanova, Maria; Matuskova, Miroslava; Demkova, Lucia; Medova, Veronika; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Dusinska, Maria; Rios Mondragon, Ivan; Cimpan, Mihaela-Roxana; Gábelová, Alena; Soltysova, Andrea; Smolkova, Bozena; Chatziioannou, Aristotelis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Decitabine (DAC), a DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitor, is tested in combination with conventional anticancer drugs as a treatment option for various solid tumors. Although epigenome modulation provides a promising ...
    • European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials 

      van Rijn, Jeaphianne; Afantitis, Antreas; Culha, Mustafa; Dusinska, Maria; Exner, Thomas E.; Jeliazkova, Nina; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Lynch, Iseult; Melagraki, Georgia; Nymark, Penny; Papadiamantis, Anastasios; Winkler, David A.; Yilmaz, Hulya; Willighagen, Egon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Management of nanomaterials and nanosafety data needs to operate under the FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) principles and this requires a unique, global identifier for each nanomaterial. ...
    • Genotoxic effects of occupational exposure to glass fibres - A human biomonitoring study 

      Ceppi, Marcello; Smolkova, Bozena; Staruchova, Marta; Kazimirova, Alena; Barancokova, Magdalena; Volkovova, Katarina; Collins, Andrew Richard; Kocan, Anton; Dzupinkova, Zuzana; Horska, Alexandra; Buocikova, Verona; Tulinska, Jana; Liskova, Aurelia; Mikusova, Miroslava Lehotska; Wsolova, Ladislava; Kuba, Daniel; Rundén-Pran, Elise; El Yamani, Naouale; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Halasova, Erika; Kyrtopoulos, Soterios; Bonassi, Stefano; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      As part of a large human biomonitoring study, we conducted occupational monitoring in a glass fibre factory in Slovakia. Shopfloor workers (n = 80), with a matched group of administrators in the same factory (n = 36), were ...
    • The miniaturized enzyme-modified comet assay for genotoxicity testing of nanomaterials 

      El Yamani, Naouale; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Collins, Andrew Richard; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Elje, Elisabeth; Hoet, Peter; Vrček, Ivana Vinković; Doak, Shareen H.; Fessard, Valérie; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The in vitro comet assay is a widely applied method for investigating genotoxicity of chemicals including engineered nanomaterials (NMs). A big challenge in hazard assessment of NMs is possible interference between the NMs ...