Microplastics in marine ecosystems: A comprehensive review of biological and ecological implications and its mitigation approach using nanotechnology for the sustainable environment

Environmental Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 256, С. 119181 - 119181

Опубликована: Май 19, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystem: Exploring the menace to the soil-plant-microbe interactions

TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 174, С. 117667 - 117667

Опубликована: Март 25, 2024

Microplastics (MPs), miniscule plastic particles measuring less than 5 mm in size, have become a concern terrestrial ecosystems, with primarily agricultural and wetland soils being the highest loadings. The adverse effect of MPs might lead to changes physicochemical biological characteristics soil including properties, microbial communities, plants, as well potential or affirmed correlations among them. Therefore, understanding risks effects MPs, particularly within soil-plant-microbe context is challenging subject substantial scientific inquiry. This comprehensive review focused on rhizosphere plant-microbe symbiotic relationships, implications for plant growth ecosystem-level nutrient fluxes. alter community composition, enzymatic activities rhizosphere, influencing availability uptake by plants. These can disrupt interactions, such mycorrhizal associations nitrogen-fixing symbioses, ultimately impacting cycling nutrients ecosystems. Furthermore, we elaborate relationships carrying Future research directions solutions microplastics menace acknowledging combined other contaminants, advanced technologies identification quantification, engineering remediation. knowledge MPs-induced impacts interactions essential generate mitigating actions environmental management conservation.

Язык: Английский

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Toxicological review of micro- and nano-plastics in aquatic environments: Risks to ecosystems, food web dynamics and human health

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 278, С. 116426 - 116426

Опубликована: Май 8, 2024

The increase of micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) in aquatic environments has become a significant concern due to their potential toxicological effects on ecosystems, food web dynamics, human health. These plastic particles emerge from range sources, such as the breakdown larger waste, consumer products, industrial outputs. This review provides detailed report transmission dangers MNPs environmental behavior, interactions within webs, emphasizing toxic impact marine life. It explores relationship between particle size toxicity, distribution different tissues, process trophic transfer through web. MNPs, once consumed, can be found various organs, including digestive system, gills, liver. Their consumption by lower level organisms facilitates progression up chain, potentially leading bioaccumulation biomagnification, thereby posing substantial risks health, reproduction, behavior species. work also how persistence bioaccumulation, pose biodiversity disrupt relationships. addresses implications for particularly contaminated seafood, highlighting direct indirect pathways which humans are exposed these pollutants. Furthermore, highlights recommendations future research directions, integration ecological, toxicological, health studies inform risk assessments develop mitigation strategies address global challenge pollution environments.

Язык: Английский

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The generation and transformation mechanisms of reactive oxygen species in the environment and their implications for pollution control processes: a review.

Environmental Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 260, С. 119592 - 119592

Опубликована: Июль 14, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Differences in toxicity induced by the various polymer types of nanoplastics on HepG2 cells

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 918, С. 170664 - 170664

Опубликована: Фев. 2, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Detection and analysis of microplastics in tissues and blood of human cervical cancer patients

Environmental Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 259, С. 119498 - 119498

Опубликована: Июнь 26, 2024

Язык: Английский

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A review of the neurobehavioural, physiological, and reproductive toxicity of microplastics in fishes

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 282, С. 116712 - 116712

Опубликована: Июль 15, 2024

Microplastics (MPs) have emerged as widespread environmental pollutants, causing significant threats to aquatic ecosystems and organisms.This review examines the toxic effects of MPs on fishes, with a focus neurobehavioural, physiological, reproductive impacts, well underlying mechanisms toxicity.Evidence indicates that induce range neurobehavioural abnormalities in affecting social interactions cognitive functions.Altered neurotransmitter levels are identified key mechanism driving behavioural alterations following MP exposure.Physiological fishes exposed also reported, including neurotoxicity, immunotoxicity, oxidative stress.These physiological disruptions can compromise individual health organisms.Furthermore, linked exposure discussed, particular emphasis endocrine signaling pathways.These impair success fish species, impacting population numbers.Here we explore critical role mediating after MPs, focusing primarily hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis.Our highlights urgent need for interdisciplinary research efforts aimed at elucidating full extent toxicity its implications ecosystems.Lastly, identify knowledge gaps future research, investigations into transgenerational if any, quantifying synergetic/antagonistic other pollutants.This expanded regarding potential risks wildlife is expected aid policymakers developing mitigation strategies protect species.

Язык: Английский

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Microplastics in the bloodstream can induce cerebral thrombosis by causing cell obstruction and lead to neurobehavioral abnormalities

Science Advances, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 11(4)

Опубликована: Янв. 22, 2025

Human health is being threatened by environmental microplastic (MP) pollution. MPs were detected in the bloodstream and multiple tissues of humans, disrupting regular physiological processes organs. Nanoscale plastics can breach blood-brain barrier, leading to neurotoxic effects. How cause brain functional irregularities remains unclear. This work uses high-depth imaging techniques investigate within vivo. We show that circulating are phagocytosed lead these cells obstruction capillaries cortex. These blockages as thrombus formation reduced blood flow neurological abnormalities mice. Our data reveal a mechanism which disrupt tissue function indirectly through regulation cell interference with local circulation, rather than direct penetration. revelation offers lens comprehend toxicological implications invade bloodstream.

Язык: Английский

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Detection and quantification of various microplastics in human endometrium based on laser direct infrared spectroscopy

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 906, С. 167760 - 167760

Опубликована: Окт. 11, 2023

The pollution of microplastics (MPs) has received widespread attention with the increasing usage plastics in recent years. MPs could enter human body and exist circulatory system. Endometrium, rich blood vessels, acts as an essential role health female fertility. However, there is no study reporting exposure endometrium. We collected endometrium samples to detect presence qualitatively quantitatively via laser direct infrared. found that was a total 13 types existing samples, among which 6 special were both high abundance detection rate. these ranged from 0 117 particles/100 mg, median 21 mg. Most detected MPs, accounting for 88.35 %, small size (20-100 μm). Among small-size ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer ranked first while polyethylene accounted largest proportion large-size (100-500 Correlation analysis indicated significant relationship between age MP or BMI abundance. also designed questionnaire investigate lifestyle daily habits, aiming at revealing potential living habits. discovered some drinking habits chewing gum significantly correlated higher level exposure. For time, we identified clarified connections lifestyle. Further studies are still necessary explore more underlying information.

Язык: Английский

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Identification and analysis of microplastics in human lower limb joints

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 461, С. 132640 - 132640

Опубликована: Сен. 27, 2023

Язык: Английский

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