PMID- 37172431 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231010 LR - 20231010 IS - 1873-3336 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3894 (Linking) VI - 454 DP - 2023 Jul 15 TI - Microplastics and nanoplastics toxicity assays: A revision towards to environmental-relevance in water environment. PG - 131476 LID - S0304-3894(23)00759-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131476 [doi] AB - Plastic pollution poses a serious risk to the oceans, freshwater ecosystems, and land-based agricultural production. Most plastic waste enters rivers and then reaches the oceans, where its fragmentation process begins and the forming of microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs). These particles increase their toxicity by the exposition to external factors and binding environmental pollutants, including toxins, heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), halogenated hydrocarbons (HHCs), and other chemicals, which further and cumulatively increase the toxicity of these particles. A major disadvantage of many MNPs in vitro studies is that they do not use environmentally relevant microorganisms, which play a vital role in geobiochemical cycles. In addition, factors such as the polymer type, shapes, and sizes of the MPs and NPs, their exposure times and concentrations must be taken into account in in vitro experiments. Last but not least, it is important to ask whether to use aged particles with bound pollutants. All these factors affect the predicted effects of these particles on living systems, which may not be realistic if they are insufficiently considered. In this article, we summarize the latest findings on MNPs in the environment and propose some recommendations for future in vitro experiments on bacteria, cyanobacteria, and microalgae in water ecosystems. CI - Copyright (c) 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Pencik, Ondrej AU - Pencik O AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Durdakova, Michaela AU - Durdakova M AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Molnarova, Katarina AU - Molnarova K AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Kucsera, Attila AU - Kucsera A AD - Department of Molecular Biology and Radiobiology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Klofac, Daniel AU - Klofac D AD - Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Kolackova, Martina AU - Kolackova M AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Adam, Vojtech AU - Adam V AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Huska, Dalibor AU - Huska D AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address: dalibor.huska@mendelu.cz. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20230423 PL - Netherlands TA - J Hazard Mater JT - Journal of hazardous materials JID - 9422688 RN - 0 (Microplastics) RN - 0 (Plastics) RN - 059QF0KO0R (Water) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) SB - IM MH - Ecosystem MH - *Microplastics/toxicity MH - Plastics/toxicity MH - Water MH - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/toxicity/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Microplastic OT - Nanoplastic OT - Ocean pollution OT - Toxicity COIS- 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. EDAT- 2023/05/13 15:13 MHDA- 2023/05/19 06:42 CRDT- 2023/05/12 18:04 PHST- 2023/02/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/04/07 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/04/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/05/19 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/05/13 15:13 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/05/12 18:04 [entrez] AID - S0304-3894(23)00759-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131476 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Hazard Mater. 2023 Jul 15;454:131476. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131476. Epub 2023 Apr 23.