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Anti-tumor activities of immunotoxins made of monoclonal antibody B3 and various forms of Pseudomonas exotoxin
Summary
This paper discusses the prevalence of micro- and nanoplastics and the health concerns they raise, particularly noting that nanoplastics are believed to be more toxic because they can pass through biological barriers. A key challenge is developing reliable detection methods for particles smaller than 1 micrometer.
Micro-nano plastics originating from the prevalent usage of plastics have raised increasingly alarming concerns worldwide. However, there remains a fundamental knowledge gap in nanoplastics because of the lack of effective analytical ...Plastics are now omnipresent in our daily lives. The existence of microplastics (1 µm to 5 mm in length) and possibly even nanoplastics (<1 μm) has recently raised health concerns. In particular, nanoplastics are believed to be more toxic since their ...
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