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Impacts of Microplastics and Mitigation Strategies for Microplastic Pollution
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This brief review introduced microplastic types, properties, and hazardous health effects, covering DNA damage and neurotoxicity observed in cells, organoids, and animal models. The authors also summarized mitigation strategies ranging from individual behavior change to advanced water treatment technologies.
Microplastics are hazardous to the environment. As an emerging pollutant, its health hazards have been extensively studied. In this brief paper, we introduce the types of micro plastics, their properties, hazardous health effects of microplastics on the environment, and mitigation strategies for the microplastic pollution effects on the environment, and reveal the toxic effects of microplastic cells, organoids, and animals, which consist of DNA damage and neurotoxicity, which will be helpful for the best understanding of microplastic impacts and mitigation strategies. This paper examines the sources and pathways of microplastic pollution, explores the potential impacts on various organisms and ecosystems, and critically evaluates existing and prospective mitigation strategies aimed at reducing microplastic generation, release, and environmental accumulation
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Microplastics and Their Toxicological Impacts on Human Health: An Overview
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Researchers synthesize recent literature on microplastic contamination, covering sources, environmental distribution, detection methods, and mechanistic evidence linking MP exposure to oxidative stress, inflammation, mitochondrial damage, and potential neurotoxic and carcinogenic effects across multiple human organ systems.
Toxicological Research on Nano and Microplastics in Environmental Pollution: Current Advances and Future Directions
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This review summarizes existing research on how nano- and microplastics from our massive global plastic production enter aquatic environments, absorb harmful chemicals, and move through food chains into living organisms. Studies show these particles can cause brain damage, disrupt metabolism, trigger inflammation, and produce harmful oxidative stress in aquatic species, with microplastics even detected in commercial fish that people eat.
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This review summarizes existing research on how microplastics are found throughout the environment and in human samples, entering the body through food, air, and skin contact. Lab studies in cells and animals show microplastics can cause oxidative stress, DNA damage, immune reactions, brain toxicity, and reproductive harm, and early human health data links microplastic exposure to several chronic diseases.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Health Concerning Cellular Toxicity Mechanisms, Exposure Pathways, and Global Mitigation Strategies
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This review synthesizes current knowledge on how micro- and nanoplastics cause cellular damage in the human body, covering mechanisms like oxidative stress, inflammation, DNA damage, and disruption of cell signaling pathways. Researchers note that exposure occurs through multiple routes including ingestion and inhalation, allowing particles to reach organs throughout the body. The study highlights significant gaps in understanding long-term and low-dose exposure effects that are most relevant to everyday human contact with these particles.
Occurrence, distribution, characteristics, toxicity, human health effects and removal techniques of Microplastic: A Review
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