Microplastics Affect Atherosclerosis in Male Mice

Ting-An Lin, a current ETOX graduate student and ChangCheng Zhou, a Professor of Biomedical Sciences and ETOX faculty member, with their associates recently published an article in Environment International that showed that male LDLR-deficient mice, which are prone to developing atherosclerosis, exhibited substantially worse atherosclerosis when fed a low-cholesterol diet and administered microplastics orally. Interestingly, these changes were not seen in female mice.  Their work was recently highlighted in UCR News website.  Our congratulations to Ting-An, Changcheng and colleagues for this recognition of their research. [The graphic above is from their Environment International article.]