Research has detected microplastics in a range of vital body parts, including the heart and brain. Now, researchers break ...

scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles ...

While human livers and kidneys also showed increases ... concentrations in the brain was a surprise because of the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain against infection.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy ... but remember that dementia is a disease where the blood brain barrier and clearance mechanisms are impaired,” Campen said.

The conversation around microplastics sheds light on an unsettling reality: these plastic particles may be accumulating in ...

Both mouse models showed clear signs of blood-brain barrier breakdown ... Understanding cell-type specific vulnerabilities is likely to provide answers to the complex human presentations of these ...