• DNA damage and repair capacity in lymphocytes from obstructive sleep apnea patients 

      Kontogianni, K.; Messini-Nikolaki, N.; Christou, K.; Gourgoulianis, K.; Tsilimigaki, S.; Piperakis, S. M. (2007)
      Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is a respiratory disease that is linked to heart attacks and high blood pressure. In the present study, we used the Comet assay to compare basal DNA damage and DNA damage induction ...
    • DNA damage and repair efficiency in lymphocytes from schizophrenic patients 

      Psimadas, D.; Messini-Nikolaki, N.; Zafiropoulou, M.; Fortos, A.; Tsilimigaki, S.; Piperakis, S. M. (2004)
      In the present study we examined schizophrenic patients' lymphocytes sensitivity to the effects of external factors, such as hydrogen peroxide and gamma-irradiation and also their repair efficiency with the comet assay. ...
    • DNA damage in a human population affected by chronic psychogenic stress 

      Dimitroglou, E.; Zafiropoulou, M.; Messini-Nikolaki, N.; Doudounakis, S.; Tsilimigaki, S.; Piperakis, S. M. (2003)
      The effects of chronic psychogenic stress on the expression of DNA damage and cellular response to the damage were investigated. Using the comet assay, basal DNA damage was found to be similar in lymphocytes of both affected ...
    • Effects of pesticides on occupationally exposed humans 

      Piperakis, S. M.; Kontogianni, K.; Piperakis, M. M.; Marcos, R.; Tsilimigaki, S. (2006)
      Pesticides are known to contain numerous genotoxic compounds; however, genotoxicity biomonitoring studies of workers occupationally exposed to pesticides have produced variable results. In this study, we employed the Comet ...
    • Effects of pulsed electric fields on DNA of human lymphocytes 

      Delimaris, J.; Tsilimigaki, S.; Messini-Nicolaki, N.; Ziros, E.; Piperakis, S. M. (2006)
      The effects of pulsed electric fields of low frequency (50 Hz) on DNA of human lymphocytes were investigated. The influence of additional external factors, such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and gamma-irradiation, as well ...