A joint research team at the Division of Biotechnology, DGIST, confirmed that microplastics(MPs) ingested orally accumulate in the brain and act as neurotoxic substances.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150817
Wookbong Kwon, Daehwan Kim, Hee-Yeon Kim, Sang Won Jeong, Se-Guen Lee, Hyun-Chul Kim, Young-Jae Lee, Mi Kyung Kwon, Jun-Seong Hwang, Jee Eun Han, Jin-Kyu Park, Sung-Jun Lee, Seong-Kyoon Choi,Microglial phagocytosis of polystyrene microplastics results in immune alteration and apoptosis in vitro and in vivo, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 807, Part 2,2022,150817,
ISSN 0048-9697,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150817.