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Marine & Wildlife
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The potential of microplastic pellets as a vector to metal contamination in two sympatric marine species
2017
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Ana Hebe Simões Nunes da Mota
Summary
This study examined the inflammatory response of human macrophage cell lines exposed to polystyrene microplastics of varying sizes, finding that smaller particles elicited stronger pro-inflammatory cytokine responses than larger equivalents. The size-dependent inflammatory mechanism involved particle internalization via phagocytosis with subsequent lysosomal destabilization and NLRP3 inflammasome activation.