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The Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics on Human Health: A Follow-Up Study Focusing on Endocrine, Nervous, and Immune Systems

This review examines evidence for microplastic and nanoplastic impacts on the endocrine, nervous, and immune systems, documenting how particles detected in human organs can disrupt hormone signaling, induce neuroinflammation, and alter immune function.

2025 International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
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Nano and microplastics: unveiling their profound impact on endocrine health

This review summarizes existing research showing that micro- and nanoplastics can disrupt the endocrine (hormone) system, altering reproductive hormones, thyroid function, and gene expression in lab and animal studies. Exposure to these particles triggered inflammation markers and oxidative stress in hormone-producing organs, suggesting that widespread plastic pollution may be contributing to rising rates of hormonal and reproductive health problems.

2025 Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods 18 citations
Systematic Review Tier 1

The endocrine disrupting effects of nanoplastic exposure: A systematic review

This systematic review summarizes research on how nanoplastics, the smallest plastic particles, can disrupt the hormonal system. The evidence from lab studies suggests nanoplastics may interfere with thyroid function, reproductive hormones, and stress responses. These findings raise concerns because endocrine disruption can lead to fertility problems, metabolic issues, and developmental effects in humans.

2023 Toxicology and Industrial Health 14 citations
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Microplastics as Emerging Contaminants: Investigating their Potential to Alter Human Metabolic and Endocrine Systems

This review investigated the potential of microplastics to alter human hormone signaling, synthesizing evidence that plastic particles and their chemical additives can act as endocrine disruptors at environmentally relevant concentrations. The paper highlighted reproductive and metabolic pathways as areas of particular concern.

2024
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The Impact of Endocrine Disruptions on Animal and Human Organism

This review examines how endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including bisphenol A, phthalates, and micro- and nanoplastics, interfere with hormonal balance in animals and humans. Researchers describe how these substances interact with hormone receptors, induce epigenetic changes, and disrupt cell signaling pathways affecting reproduction, metabolism, and neurological function. The study highlights that nanoparticles, including microplastics, may amplify endocrine disruption and calls for more research into the molecular pathways involved.

2025 Journal of Microbiology Biotechnology and Food Sciences 1 citations
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A review of the endocrine disrupting effects of micro and nano plastic and their associated chemicals in mammals

This review summarizes how micro- and nanoplastics carry hormone-disrupting chemicals that can interfere with the thyroid, reproductive organs, and other parts of the endocrine system in mammals. Because these chemicals are not tightly bound to the plastic, they can leach into milk, water, and food, potentially disrupting hormone function in humans who consume them.

2023 Frontiers in Endocrinology 289 citations
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The detrimental effect of microplastics on critical periods of development in the neuroendocrine system

This review examines how bisphenol-A and phthalates — two classes of plastic-associated chemicals — disrupt the developing neuroendocrine system, particularly during critical developmental windows, with implications for hormone disruption and neurological health.

2020 Birth Defects Research 68 citations
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Micro- and Nanoplastics as Disruptors of the Endocrine System—A Review of the Threats and Consequences Associated with Plastic Exposure

This review summarizes how micro- and nanoplastics carry endocrine-disrupting chemicals that interfere with hormones controlling reproduction, thyroid function, metabolism, and brain development. The reproductive system is especially vulnerable, with studies showing that plastic particle exposure can cause oxidative stress, cell death, and infertility, raising serious concerns given how widespread these particles are in food and the environment.

2025 International Journal of Molecular Sciences 18 citations
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Threats of nano/microplastics to reproduction and offspring: Potential mechanisms and perspectives

This review summarized the evidence on how nano- and microplastics threaten reproduction and offspring health across multiple species, including fish, invertebrates, and mammals. The authors outlined potential mechanisms by which these plastic particles disrupt endocrine function, gonadal development, and embryonic development.

2024 Journal of Toxicological Studies 1 citations
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PLASTAMINATION: Outcomes on the Central Nervous System and Reproduction.

This review assessed evidence for neurotoxic and reproductive effects of both biodegradable and conventional micro- and nanoplastics, finding that plastic particles and their chemical additives can cross the blood-brain barrier and disrupt hormone systems, with concerning implications for nervous system and reproductive health.

2024 Current neuropharmacology
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Understanding the impact of nanoplastics on reproductive health: Exposure pathways, mechanisms, and implications

This review summarizes existing research on how nanoplastics (tiny plastic particles smaller than one micrometer) affect reproductive health in animals and potentially humans. Studies show that nanoplastics can accumulate in reproductive organs including the placenta, and evidence from animal studies links exposure to hormone disruption, reduced fertility, and developmental problems. The authors highlight a significant knowledge gap about nanoplastic effects on human reproduction, despite growing evidence that these particles reach our reproductive systems.

2024 Toxicology 16 citations
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Impacto de los disruptores endocrinos derivados de plásticos en la regulación hormonal masculina: un análisis integral de la evidencia científica

This literature review compiled recent studies on how phthalates, bisphenol A, and microplastics from plastic products disrupt male hormonal regulation, finding evidence for reduced testosterone, impaired testicular synthesis, and alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. The review calls for greater attention to plastic-derived endocrine disruptors in male reproductive health research.

2025 Revista Metropolitana de Ciencias Aplicadas
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Micro- and Nano-plastics may affect the central regulation of reproduction: insights from in vitro and in vivo studies on GnRH neurons.

This review examined evidence that micro- and nanoplastics can interfere with the central regulation of reproduction by disrupting hormonal signaling in the brain and endocrine glands. Animal studies show that plastic particle exposure can alter reproductive hormone levels and fertility outcomes.

2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Metabolomics-Based Insights Into the Toxicological Effects and Mechanisms of Microplastics: A Comprehensive Review.

This review of existing research shows that microplastics—tiny plastic particles found everywhere in our environment—can harm multiple body systems including the gut, brain, and reproductive organs. Scientists used a technique called metabolomics (studying how our body processes chemicals) to discover that microplastics disrupt normal metabolism, potentially affecting everything from digestion and brain function to fertility and child development. This research helps explain why microplastic pollution may be a serious health threat that requires urgent attention and solutions.

2026 PubMed
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Microplastics as an emerging threat to human health: Challenges and advancements in their detection

This review examined microplastics as an emerging threat to human health, highlighting their endocrine-disrupting properties, ability to accumulate pollutants, and the analytical challenges in accurately detecting and characterizing them across environmental and biological samples.

2023 Applied Chemical Engineering 6 citations
Review Tier 2

Endocrine Toxicity of Micro- and Nanoplastics, and Advances in Detection Techniques for Human Tissues: A Comprehensive Review

This review summarizes growing evidence that micro- and nanoplastics contain or carry endocrine-disrupting chemicals that interfere with hormones throughout the body, triggering oxidative stress, inflammation, and cell death in hormone-producing tissues. The paper also reviews new detection methods that can identify and measure these tiny plastic particles in human blood, tissue, and other biological samples, which is essential for understanding real-world health impacts.

2025 Endocrines 10 citations
Review Tier 2

Effects of micro(nano)plastics on the reproductive system: A review

This review summarizes research on how micro and nanoplastics affect the reproductive system in both animal studies and cell experiments. Evidence indicates these particles can cross biological barriers, accumulate in reproductive organs, and disrupt hormones, egg development, and sperm quality. While human studies are still limited, the animal data suggests microplastic exposure may be a meaningful concern for reproductive health.

2023 Chemosphere 42 citations
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Exposição De Microplásticos E Nanoplásticos Ao Tecido Ovariano: Uma Revisão Integrativa

This integrative review (in Portuguese) examines published evidence on the effects of micro- and nanoplastic exposure on female ovarian tissue morphology, finding disrupted folliculogenesis, oxidative stress, and hormonal interference reported across animal model studies.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Review Tier 2

"Unseen Dangers: The Effects of Micro- and Nanoplastics on Human Reproductive Health - A Narrative Review"

This review examines the effects of micro- and nanoplastics on human reproductive health, covering evidence from in vitro, animal, and epidemiological studies showing that plastic particles can disrupt hormone signaling, sperm function, ovarian development, and placental integrity.

2025 Recent Advances in Inflammation & Allergy Drug Discovery
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Exposição a Nano E Microplásticos E Seus Impactos Na Saúde Humana: Uma Revisão Da Literatura

This Brazilian literature review (in Portuguese) synthesizes evidence that nano- and microplastic particles can enter the human body through air, water, and food, and migrate to organs including the lungs, liver, brain, and intestines. Health effects on the respiratory, immune, gastrointestinal, and hepatic systems have been documented in both humans and other mammals, with the severity depending on particle type, size, and dose. The review reinforces growing concern that microplastic exposure is a systemic human health issue rather than a localized or minor hazard.

2023 Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação 2 citations
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Current insights into the impact of plastic-derived pollutants (phthalates), microplastics, and nanoplastics on hypothalamic phenotype and molecular pathways: A scoping review

This scoping review integrates evidence on how phthalates, microplastics, and nanoplastics alter hypothalamic function and neuroendocrine pathways, finding that plastic-derived pollutants disrupt metabolic regulation through hypothalamic alterations with potential systemic consequences for energy balance and reproductive function.

2025 Environmental Pollution
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Micro- and Nano-plastics may affect the central regulation of reproduction: insights from in vitro and in vivo studies on GnRH neurons.

This review examined how micro- and nanoplastics may interfere with the central nervous system regulation of reproduction, compiling evidence from animal studies. The analysis suggests that plastic particle exposure could disrupt hormonal signaling pathways that control reproductive function.

2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Repercussões dos microplásticos e nanoplásticos nos sistemas gastrointestinal, circulatório e respiratório: Um novo potencial de exposição

This integrative review examined the effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on the gastrointestinal, circulatory, and respiratory systems, drawing on studies indexed in PubMed, SciELO, LILACS, and Cochrane databases. The review summarized the routes of contamination and health consequences of plastic particle exposure for these major organ systems.

2024 Research Society and Development
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Efeitos dos Microplásticos

This article reviews the effects of microplastics on organisms and ecosystems, summarizing ecotoxicological evidence from studies on marine and freshwater species as well as emerging data on human exposure. The review is written in Portuguese and covers impacts ranging from physical ingestion effects to chemical toxicity from plastic-associated compounds.

2024 Revista Científica FESA 1 citations