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Dietary consumption of polypropylene microplastics alter the biochemical parameters and histological response in freshwater benthic mollusc Pomacea paludosa
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Researchers exposed freshwater snails (Pomacea paludosa) to polypropylene microplastics through their diet at three concentrations over 28 days and measured biochemical and tissue-level responses. They found significant changes in antioxidant enzyme activity and histological damage in the digestive gland, with effects worsening at higher concentrations. The study suggests that dietary microplastic exposure can cause oxidative stress and organ damage in freshwater benthic organisms.
One of the most common environmental pollutant in aquatic ecosystems are polypropylene microplastics and their impacts on aquatic organisms are still scarce. The study aimed to prepare polypropylene microplastics using organic solvent (spherical and 11.86-44.62 μm) and then test their toxicity on the freshwater benthic mollusc grazer Pomaceae paludosa. The present study investigated chronic (28 days) exposure of polypropylene microplastics via dietary supplements (250 mg kg, 500 mg kg & 750 mg kg) in P. paludosa, and the toxic effect was evaluated in digestive gland tissue. The FTIR results revealed no change in polypropylene microplastics during ingestion or after egestion. On the other hand, Ingestion causes accumulation in their bodies and disrupts redox homeostasis. Meanwhile, alteration occurs in oxidative stress-related biomarkers such as increased reactive oxygen species level (ROS), impaired the biochemical parameters of antioxidant system catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), reduced glutathione (GSH), and glutathione - S- transferase (GST), deterioration of oxidative stress effects in lipid peroxidation (LPO) and carbonyl protein (CP) and changed the digestive enzymes such as amylase, pepsin, esterase and alkaline phosphatase that are measured in hepatopancreas tissue. The histology results revealed that ingesting these microplastics caused severe damage to the digestive gland cells. According to the findings, ingestion of polypropylene microplastics in benthic freshwater mollusc causes more serious harm and impacts energy acquisition. This finding represents the ecological risk of polypropylene microplastic pollution in the freshwater ecosystem.
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