ReviewToxics2023
(Micro)Plastics Are Toxic Pollutants.
Review in Toxics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Dietary microplastic exposure and lip-oral cavity cancer: a global ecological analysis with pre-specified spatial econometric sensitivity.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- ZnO/AC recovered from PET bottlesRSC advances · 2026Article
- Biofouled Micro- and Nanoplastics as Reactive Platforms for Potentially Toxic Element Transformation.Environmental science & technology · 2026Review
- Review
- Integration of Biochar into Soil Unravels Protective Mechanisms Against Plastic-Induced Stress inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A review: climate, contaminants and disease dynamics in lobster speciesFrontiers in physiology · 2026Review
- Microplastics and neurotoxicity: could prenatal exposure to microplastics boost congenital enteric neuropathies?Frontiers in toxicology · 2026Review
- Molecular mechanisms of air pollution-induced carcinogenesis and the emerging role of microplastics.Human genomics · 2025Review
- From Chromosomal Aberrations to Transcriptome Analysis: Four Decades of Research in Bivalve Genotoxicity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Microplastics and exercise: impacts on performance and physiological health.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Review
- Editorial: "Unravelling micro-/nano-plastics toxicity profiling: can we link associated effects to intrinsic characteristics?"Frontiers in toxicology · 2025Article
- Review
- UVB-Aged Microplastics and Cellular Damage: An in Vitro Study.Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology · 2024Article
- Nanoplastics and Neurodegeneration in ALS.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Plastics, including microplastics, have generally been regarded as harmful to organisms because of their physical characteristics. There has recently been a call to understand and regard them as persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic. This review elaborates on the reasons that microplastics in particular should be considered as "toxic pollutants". This view is supported by research demonstrating that they contain toxic chemicals within their structure and also adsorb additional chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides, metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), from the environment. Furthermore, these chemicals can be released into tissues of animals that consume microplastics and can be responsible for the harmful effects observed on biological processes such as development, physiology, gene expression, and behavior. Leachates, weathering, and biofilm play important roles in the interactions between microplastics and biota. Global policy efforts by the United Nations Environmental Assembly via the international legally binding treaty to address global plastic pollution should consider the designation of harmful plastics (e.g., microplastics) with associated hazardous chemicals as toxic pollutants.
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