Antioxidant defense in primary murine lung cells following short-and long-term exposure to plastic particles

A Schmidt, M Mühl, WAS Brito, D Singer, S Bekeschus - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polystyrene nano-and micro-sized plastic particles (NMP) are one of the common plastic
materials produced that dramatically pollute the environment, water, and oceanic habitats …

Beyond microplastics - investigation on health impacts of submicron and nanoplastic particles after oral uptake in vitro

MB Paul, C Fahrenson, L Givelet, T Herrmann… - Microplastics and …, 2022 - Springer
The continuously increasing use of plastics is supposed to result in a rising exposure of
MNPs to humans. Available data on human health risks of microplastics after oral uptake …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced neurotoxic effect of PCB-153 when co-exposed with polystyrene nanoplastics in zebrafish larvae

S Varshney, MM Hegstad-Pettersen… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanoplastics (NPs) and persistent organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) are ubiquitous aquatic pollutants. The coexistence of these pollutants in the …

Polystyrene nanoplastics target lysosomes interfering with lipid metabolism through the PPAR system and affecting macrophage functionalization

I Brandts, R Solà, M Garcia-Ordoñez, A Gella… - Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoplastics (NPs) are currently a main concern for environmental, animal and human
health due to their potential to accumulate in different environmental compartments and …

Polystyrene nano-and microplastic particles induce an inflammatory gene expression profile in rat neural stem cell-derived astrocytes in vitro

KA Marcellus, S Bugiel, A Nunnikhoven, I Curran… - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Microplastics are considered an emerging environmental pollutant due to their ubiquitous
presence in the environment. However, the potential impact of microplastics on human …

In vitro approaches to determine the potential carcinogenic risk of environmental pollutants

I Barguilla, V Maguer-Satta, B Guyot, S Pastor… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
One important environmental/health challenge is to determine, in a feasible way, the
potential carcinogenic risk associated with environmental agents/exposures. Since a …

The Other Side of Plastics: Bioplastic-Based Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Systems in the Brain

EP Lamparelli, M Marino, MA Szychlinska… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plastics have changed human lives, finding a broad range of applications from packaging to
medical devices. However, plastics can degrade into microscopic forms known as micro-and …

[HTML][HTML] Micro-and nano-plastics contaminants in the environment: Sources, fate, toxicity, detection, remediation, and sustainable perspectives

AH Rashed, G Yesilay, L Hazeem, S Rashdan… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The continuous production and widespread applications of synthetic plastics and their waste
present immense environmental challenges and damage living systems. Microplastics …

Hydrolysates of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) seed meal: Characterization and their inhibitory effect on α-glucosidase activity and glucose transport in Caco-2 cells

L Cai, S Wu, C Jia, C Cui - Industrial Crops and Products, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the lack of high value-added products and the rough utilization of hemp protein,
which has the effect of regulating blood glucose, as well as the adverse effects of glucose …

Validated method for polystyrene nanoplastic separation in aqueous matrices by asymmetric-flow field flow fraction coupled to MALS and UV–Vis detectors

I H. Valido, V Fuentes-Cebrian, A Hernández… - Microchimica Acta, 2023 - Springer
Plastics with nanosize (nanoplastics, NPLs) must be characterized, since they can be toxic
or act as carriers of organic and inorganic pollutants, but there is a lack of reference …