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Microplastics in three types of human arteries detected by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS).

Journal of Hazardous Materials
Microplastics are ubiquitous in the environment. Human body can be exposed to microplastics through inhalation and ingestion and some microplastics can enter the blood and accumulate in various tissues and organs throughout the body.
Sheng Liu, Chenyang Wang, Yun-Xiao Yang, Zhi-Yong Du, Li Li, Meng Zhang, Siyao Ni, Zhijian Yue, Ke-Xin Yang, Yu Wang, Xin-Xin Li, Yao-Chen Yang, Yan-Wen Qin, Jianrong Li, Yao-Guo Yang, Ming Zhang   +15 more
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Microplastics and cancer

European Journal of Cancer Prevention
The pervasive spread of microplastics (MPs) in the environment (including air, water, and food) has raised concerns regarding human health. These pollutants have been detected in various human tissues such as lungs, colon, blood, placenta, tumors, and body fluids.
G. Bogani, E. Trimarchi, V. Chiappa, G. Vizzielli, F. Raspagliesi, C. La Vecchia, G. Corso   +6 more
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Estimation of the mass of microplastics ingested - A pivotal first step towards human health risk assessment.

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020
The ubiquitous presence of microplastics in the food web has been established. However, the mass of microplastics exposure to humans is not defined, impeding the human health risk assessment.
Kala Senathirajah, S. Attwood, G. Bhagwat, M. Carbery, S. Wilson, Thavamani Palanisami   +5 more
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Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
Polymer science is one of the most revolutionary research areas of the last century, instigated by the discovery of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic.
J. Frias, R. Nash
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Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
While versatile application of plastics has generated huge benefits in our life, the 'plastic end-of-life' comes with downsides of emerging concern is plastic particles within all parts of environments.
A. al Mamun, Tofan Agung Eka Prasetya, Indiah Ratna Dewi, Monsur Ahmad   +3 more
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Agricultural plastic mulching as a source of microplastics in the terrestrial environment.

Environmental Pollution, 2020
Plastic mulching is suspected to be a significant source of microplastics in terrestrial environments owing to its intensive application and improper disposal. However, there has been a comparative lack of studies examining this hypothesis. In this study,
Yi Huang, Qin Liu, Weiqian Jia, Changrong Yan, Jie Wang   +4 more
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Detection of Various Microplastics in Human Stool

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2019
In the past century, global production of plastics has grown exponentially to more than 350 million tons per year, part of which ends up littering the environment (1, 2). Microplastics are defined as plastic particles smaller than 5 mm (3).
P. Schwabl, Sebastian Köppel, Philipp Königshofer, T. Bucsics, M. Trauner, T. Reiberger, B. Liebmann   +6 more
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Microplasticity

2005
Abstract This chapter briefily introduces the origins of yield and plastic flow, and in particular, attempts to explain the usual assumptions in simple continuum plasticity of isotropy, incompressibility, and independence of hydrostatic stress.
Fionn Dunne, Nik Petrinic
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Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection.

Water Research, 2017
The continuous increase in synthetic plastic production and poor management in plastic waste have led to a tremendous increase in the dumping into our aqueous environment.
Jingyi Li, Huihui Liu, J. Paul Chen
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Microplastics are not microplastics are not microplastics

Microplastics are commonly defined as plastic particles of varying shapes less that 5 mm in diameter (NOAA, 2024a). Compared to macroplastics waste, which is relatively easy to visualise and trace back to its source, microplastic pollution is largely invisible, yet pervasive, and exerts its toxic effects in insidious ways.
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