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FACILITATION OF IMMUNE HEMOLYSIS BY AN INTERACTION BETWEEN RED CELL-SENSITIZING ANTIBODY AND γ-GLOBULIN ALLOTYPE ANTIBODY
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This paper discusses the growing concern over micro- and nanoplastics, with nanoplastics considered especially hazardous because they are too small to be stopped by biological barriers. A major obstacle to scientific progress is the absence of reliable methods for detecting nanoplastics 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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