Ecotoxicology and environmental safetyFetal BloodHumansMicroplasticsHypoxia-Inducible Factor 1alpha Subunit
First identification of microplastics in umbilical cord blood and their direct target proteins: A pioneering discovery.
Zhao Yin, Qing Zhang, Yangmin Zhu, Xiangjun Fu, Qi Zhong, Ruiming Ou, Huijuan Shen, Shaya Mahati, Guangchao Li, Zhi Liu, Jing Huang, Shuang Liu
Published: 202510.1016/j.ecoenv.2025.119405
Abstract
Microplastics (MPs) have been detected in human organs and peripheral blood, but their presence in the fetal circulation and their direct biomolecular interactions remain unknown. This study combined Raman spectroscopy, Py-GC/MS, and SEM to detect an…
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