College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China.
College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China.
Sci Total Environ. 2019 Jun 1;667:94-100. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.380. Epub 2019 Feb 26.
Microplastics (MPs) has gradually become a global environmental pollution problem and may harm human and animal health. In recent years, a large number of studies had shown that MPs had various toxicological effects on different organisms. At the same time, a number of studies had also shown that gut microbiota was closely related to host health and as a toxicity target for certain environmental pollutants including MPs. The fact is that more and more studies proved that MPs not only could interact with microorganism directly but also serve as a carrier for other pollutants and interacted with microorganism indirectly. In this review, we summarized the interactions between MPs and microorganisms as well as gut microbiota, and considered the possible impacts of MPs on environmental animal and human health, suggesting that the environmental microorganisms and the gut microbiota of animals were also the very important target for MPs. We hope that more studies pay more attention to focus on the relationship between MPs, gut microbiota, and environmental animals and human health in the future.
微塑料（MPs）已逐渐成为全球性的环境污染问题，可能危害人类和动物健康。近年来，大量研究表明 MPs 对不同生物具有各种毒理学效应。同时，一些研究也表明，肠道微生物群与宿主健康密切相关，是包括 MPs 在内的某些环境污染物的毒性靶标。事实上，越来越多的研究证明 MPs 不仅可以与微生物直接相互作用，还可以作为其他污染物的载体并与微生物间接相互作用。在本综述中，我们总结了 MPs 与微生物和肠道微生物群之间的相互作用，并考虑了 MPs 对环境动物和人类健康的可能影响，表明环境微生物和动物的肠道微生物群也是 MPs 的重要靶标。我们希望未来有更多的研究关注 MPs、肠道微生物群与环境动物和人类健康之间的关系。
