Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Mar 20, 2025
PURPOSE: This study aims to develop a comprehensive simulation framework to connect radiation effects from the microscopic to the nanoscopic scale.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis
Dec 30, 2024
Genotoxicity is a critical determinant for assessing the safety of pharmaceutical drugs, their metabolites, and impurities. Among genotoxicity tests, mechanistic assays such as the MultiFlow® DNA damage assay (MFA) allows the investigations on mode o...
Exposure to hexavalent chromium damages genetic materials like DNA and chromosomes, further elevating cancer risk, yet research rarely focuses on related immunological mechanisms, which play an important role in the occurrence and development of canc...
Mutation research. Genetic toxicology and environmental mutagenesis
Jan 6, 2024
In this report we provide a summary of the presentations and discussion of the latest knowledge regarding the buccal micronucleus (MN) cytome assay. This information was presented at the HUMN workshop held in Malaga, Spain, in connection with the 202...
BACKGROUND/AIM: Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are widely used in a variety of products, including sunscreens, paints, and ceramics. However, their increasing use has raised concerns about their potential health risks. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles ...
BACKGROUND/AIM: Heavy-ion irradiation seriously perturbs cellular homeostasis and thus damages cells. Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) play an important role in the pathological process of radiation damage. Protecting ECs from heavy-ion radiation is ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 26, 2023
The cytokinesis block micronucleus assay is widely used for measuring/scoring/counting micronuclei, a marker of genome instability in cultured and primary cells. Though a gold standard method, this is a laborious and time-consuming process with perso...
Low-temperature plasmas have quickly emerged as alternative and unconventional types of radiation that offer great promise for various clinical modalities. As with other types of radiation, the therapeutic efficacy and safety of low-temperature plasm...
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
Aug 13, 2022
2-Methylfuran (2-MF) exists naturally in foods and is used as a flavoring agent. Furan, the core structure of 2-MF, possesses hepatocarcinogenicity in rodents. Accumulation of toxicological information on furan derivatives is needed to elucidate thei...
Humans are widely exposed to a great variety of mycotoxins and their mixtures. Therefore, it is important to design strategies that allow prioritizing mycotoxins based on their toxic potential in a time and cost-effective manner. A strategy combining...
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