Maternal exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics impacts developmental milestones and brain structure in mouse offspring

Nikita Harvey, Grace V. Mercer, Darcie Stapleton, Katherine L. Steeves, Jenna Hanrahan, Megan Cui, Zahra Aghaei, Shoshana Spring, Paul A. Helm, André J. Simpson,

Environmental Science Advances · 2023 · 46 citations · 28 references

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Maternal exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics impact postnatal brain development in mouse offspring. This work motivates further studies to determine the levels of nanoplastics in the environment.

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