Nanoplastics, Gut Microbiota, and Neurodegeneration

Ananya Rai

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-4530-4_13

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Nanoplastics, Gut Microbiota, and Neurodegeneration

Nutritional neurosciences 2022 1 citation ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.

Ananya Rai

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Nanoplastics ingested via contaminated food and water can cross biological barriers and accumulate in gut tissue, where they disrupt the gut microbiota and may trigger neuroinflammatory pathways linked to neurodegenerative disease. This gut-brain axis disruption represents one of the most concerning potential mechanisms by which chronic nanoplastic exposure could harm human health.

Plastics are high molecular weight organic polymers and their production has increased drastically, i.e., 150 times from l950 to 2015. Plastics in the environment are persistent form of a pollutant. Especially, Microplastics (MPs)...

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