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Evaluation of Polystyrene Nanoplastics Induced Cardiotoxicity Under Different Dietary Patterns in Mice
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Researchers exposed mice fed different dietary patterns to polystyrene nanoplastics and assessed cardiac toxicity. The study found that dietary habits significantly modulated nanoplastic-induced heart damage, demonstrating that diet is an important variable in evaluating the health risks of foodborne plastic contaminants.
These findings demonstrate that dietary habits can aggravate the cardiac toxicity induced by foodborne nanoplastics, highlighting the importance of considering dietary patterns in the risk assessment of food contaminants.
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