Environmental fate, ecotoxicity biomarkers, and potential health effects of micro-and nano-scale plastic contamination

PK Rai, J Lee, RJC Brown, KH Kim - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the quantity of plastic waste products has increased tremendously. As
plastic wastes are released into the environment, they exert harmful effects on biota and …

Micro-and nano-plastic pollution: Behavior, microbial ecology, and remediation technologies

PK Rai, J Lee, RJC Brown, KH Kim - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
An abrupt rise in plastic waste has become one of the most serious global environmental
problems during the past five decades, and many strategies have been suggested to control …

Ecotoxicity testing of microplastics: Considering the heterogeneity of physicochemical properties

S Lambert, C Scherer, M Wagner - Integrated environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT “Microplastic” is an umbrella term that covers many particle shapes, sizes, and
polymer types, and as such the physical and chemical properties of environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish: A complete animal model to enumerate the nanoparticle toxicity

C Chakraborty, AR Sharma, G Sharma… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Presently, nanotechnology is a multi-trillion dollar business sector that covers a wide range
of industries, such as medicine, electronics and chemistry. In the current era, the commercial …

[HTML][HTML] Methods for reducing the toxicity of metal and metal oxide NPs as biomedicine

O Długosz, K Szostak, A Staroń, J Pulit-Prociak… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The rapid development of medicine has forced equally rapid progress in the field of
pharmaceuticals. In connection with the expensive and time-consuming process of finding …

Toxicological study of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles in zebrafish

C Bai, M Tang - Journal of applied toxicology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metal and metal oxide nanoparticles have been widely used in catalytic, electronic and
biomedical fields. It is necessary to investigate their toxicity and potential hazards to human …

Zinc oxide nanoparticles exhibit cytotoxicity and genotoxicity through oxidative stress responses in human lung fibroblasts and Drosophila melanogaster

CT Ng, LQ Yong, MP Hande, CN Ong… - International journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background Although zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have been widely used, there has
been an increasing number of reports on the toxicity of ZnO NPs. However, study on the …

Nanomaterials meet zebrafish: Toxicity evaluation and drug delivery applications

HR Jia, YX Zhu, QY Duan, Z Chen, FG Wu - Journal of Controlled Release, 2019 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of engineered nanomaterials for various applications, in vivo
toxicological studies for evaluating the potential hazardous effects of nanomaterials on …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish as a model to evaluate nanoparticle toxicity

E Haque, AC Ward - Nanomaterials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Nanoparticles are increasingly being developed for in vivo use, from targeted drug delivery
to diagnostics, where they have enormous potential, while they are also being used for a …

Cancer treatment and toxicity outlook of nanoparticles

M Sharma, P Thakur, P Gaur, GM Rani, S Rustagi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diversified nanosystems with tunable physicochemical attributes have emerged as potential
solution to globally devastating cancer by offering novel possibilities for improving the …