Microplastics, potential threat to patients with lung diseases

Kuo Lu; Danting Zhan; Yingying Fang; Lei Li; Guobing Chen; Guobing Chen; Shanze Chen; Lingwei Wang

doi:10.3389/ftox.2022.958414

Frontiers in Toxicology (Sep 2022)

Microplastics, potential threat to patients with lung diseases

Kuo Lu,
Danting Zhan,
Yingying Fang,
Lei Li,
Guobing Chen,
Guobing Chen,
Shanze Chen,
Lingwei Wang

Affiliations

Kuo Lu: The Department of Respiratory Diseases and Critic Care Unit, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Disease, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Post-Doctoral Scientific Research Station of Basic Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Danting Zhan: The Department of Respiratory Diseases and Critic Care Unit, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Disease, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Post-Doctoral Scientific Research Station of Basic Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Yingying Fang: The Department of Respiratory Diseases and Critic Care Unit, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Disease, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Post-Doctoral Scientific Research Station of Basic Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Lei Li: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome and Behavior, CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Connectom aend Manipulation, The Brain Cogntion and Brain Disease Institute (BCBDI), Shenzhen Institutes of Adavnced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shnezhen Fundamental Research Institutions, Shenzhen, China
Guobing Chen: The Department of Respiratory Diseases and Critic Care Unit, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Disease, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Post-Doctoral Scientific Research Station of Basic Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Guobing Chen: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Geriatric Immunology, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Shanze Chen: The Department of Respiratory Diseases and Critic Care Unit, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Disease, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Post-Doctoral Scientific Research Station of Basic Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Lingwei Wang: The Department of Respiratory Diseases and Critic Care Unit, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Disease, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Post-Doctoral Scientific Research Station of Basic Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/ftox.2022.958414
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4

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Air pollution is one of the major risk factors for lung disease. Microplastics are a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, both indoors and in outdoor air. Microplastics have also been found in human lung tissue and sputum. However, there is a paucity of information on the effects and mechanisms of microplastics on lung disease. In this mini-review, we reviewed the possible mechanisms by which air microplastics’ exposure affects lung disease and, at the same time, pointed out the limitations of current studies.

Published in Frontiers in Toxicology

ISSN: 2673-3080 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine: Toxicology. Poisons
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/toxicology#

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