First evidence of in vitro cytotoxic effects of marine microlitter on Merluccius merluccius and Mullus barbatus, two Mediterranean commercial fish species.
Bioindicators
Biological agents
Cytotoxicity
In vitro approaches
Marine microlitter
Primary cell cultures
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
20 Mar 2022
20 Mar 2022
Historique:
received:
30
10
2021
revised:
17
12
2021
accepted:
19
12
2021
pubmed:
31
12
2021
medline:
9
2
2022
entrez:
30
12
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Marine litter is composed mainly of plastics and is recognized as a serious threat to marine ecosystems. Ecotoxicological approaches have started elucidating the potential severity of microplastics (MPs) in controlled laboratory studies with pristine materials but no information exists on marine environmental microlitter as a whole. Here, we characterized the litter in the coastal Northern Tyrrhenian sea and in the stomach of two fish species of socio-economic importance, and exposed primary cell cultures of mucosal and lymphoid organs to marine microlitter for evaluating possible cytotoxic effects. An average of 0.30 ± 0.02 microlitter items m
Identifiants
pubmed: 34968612
pii: S0048-9697(21)07696-8
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152618
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Plastics
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
152618Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.