The Role of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Medicine
A special issue of Journal of Xenobiotics (ISSN 2039-4713).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2027 | Viewed by 906
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Dear Colleagues,
Plastic pollution represents a major environmental challenge of the 21st century, exerting widespread and increasingly recognized impacts on ecosystems and human health. The dramatic escalation of global plastic production over the past seven decades has fundamentally altered environmental exposure patterns. The fragmentation of macroplastics through mechanical abrasion, ultraviolet radiation, and oxidative degradation generates microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs), which now constitute a measurable fraction of atmospheric particulate matter. Microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) have been found in certain human tissues, including the placenta, lungs, and liver, as well as in breast milk, urine, and blood. Recent research conducted in preclinical models has suggested MNPs as a new risk factor for gastrointestinal malignancies, lung cancer, and vascular and cardiovascular diseases. Numerous studies have demonstrated that MNPs enter the human body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin exposure, where they interact with tissues and organs.
The scope of this Special Issue is to present novel data regarding the association of MNPs with medical diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases and malignancies (gastrointestinal malignancies, lung cancer, etc.), and gather information on the detection of MNPs.
We welcome review articles and original articles on basic, pre-clinical, clinical, and translational research.
Dr. Francesk Mulita
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microplastics
- nanoplastics
- human health
- cardiovascular disease
- lung cancer
- gastrointestinal malignancies
- genotoxicity
- exposure routes
- tissue distribution
- biomarkers
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