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Correction: Correlation between cellular uptake and cytotoxicity of polystyrene micro/nanoplastics in HeLa cells: A size-dependent matter

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Yiming Ruan, Zheng Zhong, Xin Liu, Ziwei Li, Junxian Li, Lili Sun, Sen Hou

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This is a correction notice for a published article on polystyrene micro/nanoplastic cytotoxicity and cellular uptake in HeLa cells; it does not report new findings but corrects identified errors in the original publication (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289473).

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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289473.].

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