Dasmahapatra Asok K, Chatterjee Joydeep, Tchounwou Paul B
Department of BioMolecular Science, Environmental Toxicology Division, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, United States.
Department of Biology, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States.
Front Toxicol. 2025 May 30;7:1530209. doi: 10.3389/ftox.2025.1530209. eCollection 2025.
The global concern about plastics has been amplified due to their widespread contamination in the environment and their ability to cross biological barriers in living organisms. However, our understanding of their bioaccumulation, toxicity, and interaction with other environmental pollutants remains limited. Plastics are classified into three categories: macro-(MAP > 5 mm), micro-(MIP, <5 mm), and nanoplastics (NAP≤ 100 nm). Among these, NAPs have superior sorption capacity, a large surface area, and a greater ability to release co-contaminants into tissues, resulting in more complex and harmful effects compared to MAPs and MIPs. To assess the toxic effects of NAPs, particularly their genotoxicity in fish, we carried out a bibliographic search in PubMed using the search terms "nanoplastics" and "fish," which yielded 233 articles. These studies focused on various polymers including polyamide (PA), polycarbonate (PC), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), polypropylene (PPP), polystyrene (PS), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). We further refined our search by including fish species such as common carp, fathead minnows, medaka, tilapia, trout, and zebrafish and selected 114 articles for review. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on the effects of NAPs on fishes, emphasizing their interaction with co-contaminants including metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, antibiotics, plastic additives, and endocrine disruptors found in the aquatic environments. Our findings indicate that among fish species, zebrafish (∼68%) is the most frequently studied, while PS (∼89%) is the most commonly encountered NAP in the aquatic ecosystems. Despite substantial experimental variability, our systematic review highlights that NAPs accumulate in various tissues of fish including the skin, muscle, gill, gut, liver, heart, gonads, and brain across all developmental stages, from embryos to adults. NAP exposure leads to significant adverse effects including increased oxidative stress, decreased locomotor and foraging activities, altered growth, immunity, lipid metabolism, and induced neurotoxicity. Furthermore, NAP exposure modulates estrogen-androgen-thyroid-steroidogenesis (EATS) pathways and shows potential intergenerational effects. Although the USEPA and EU are aware of the global impacts of plastic pollution, the prolonged persistence of plastics continues to pose a significant risk to both aquatic life and human health.
由于塑料在环境中广泛污染以及它们能够跨越生物体中的生物屏障,全球对塑料的关注有所增加。然而,我们对其生物累积、毒性以及与其他环境污染物相互作用的理解仍然有限。塑料分为三类:宏观塑料(MAP > 5毫米)、微塑料(MIP,<5毫米)和纳米塑料(NAP≤100纳米)。其中,纳米塑料具有卓越的吸附能力、大表面积以及更强的将共污染物释放到组织中的能力,与宏观塑料和微塑料相比,会产生更复杂和有害的影响。为了评估纳米塑料的毒性作用,特别是它们对鱼类的遗传毒性,我们在PubMed中使用搜索词“纳米塑料”和“鱼类”进行了文献检索,共得到233篇文章。这些研究聚焦于各种聚合物,包括聚酰胺(PA)、聚碳酸酯(PC)、聚乙烯(PE)、聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯(PET)、聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)、聚丙烯(PPP)、聚苯乙烯(PS)和聚氯乙烯(PVC)。我们通过纳入鲤鱼、黑头呆鱼、青鳉、罗非鱼、鳟鱼和斑马鱼等鱼类物种进一步细化了搜索,并选择了114篇文章进行综述。本文全面概述了纳米塑料对鱼类影响的当前知识状态,强调了它们与水生环境中发现的包括金属、多环芳烃、药物、农药、抗生素、塑料添加剂和内分泌干扰物在内的共污染物的相互作用。我们的研究结果表明,在鱼类物种中,斑马鱼(约68%)是研究最频繁的,而聚苯乙烯(约89%)是水生生态系统中最常见的纳米塑料。尽管实验存在很大差异,但我们的系统综述强调,纳米塑料在鱼类的各种组织中积累,包括从胚胎到成体的所有发育阶段的皮肤、肌肉、鳃、肠道、肝脏、心脏、性腺和大脑。纳米塑料暴露会导致显著的不利影响,包括氧化应激增加、运动和觅食活动减少、生长、免疫、脂质代谢改变以及诱导神经毒性。此外,纳米塑料暴露会调节雌激素 - 雄激素 - 甲状腺 - 类固醇生成(EATS)途径,并显示出潜在的代际效应。尽管美国环境保护局和欧盟意识到塑料污染的全球影响,但塑料的长期持久性继续对水生生物和人类健康构成重大风险。
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