Valdiglesias, VanessaFernández-Bertólez, NatáliaTouzani, A.Mendéz, J.Martinez, L.Pásaro, E.Reis, A.T.Fraga, S.Teixeira, J.P.Costa, C.Laffon, B.2024-02-082024-02-082023-06-23http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/9056Metal-based nanoparticles (NP) are being increasingly used in a wide variety of applications in consumer products and biomedical practices. As a result, human exposure to these nanomaterials is frequent, becoming a concern to public health. Human salivary leucocytes have been proposed as a proper biological sample for the comet assay, becoming an adequate non-invasive alternative model to evaluate DNA damage. In the present study, the suitability of salivary leucocytes to respond to exposure to different nanomaterials was addressed.engMetal-based NanoparticlesComet AssayDNA Primary DamageDNA Oxidative DamageMetal NanoparticlesSalivary LeucocytesGenotoxicidade AmbientalBiomonitoringHuman Exposureconference object