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Polypropylene microplastics in mouse kidney disrupt redox homeostasis and mitochondrial structure, with Raman spectral fingerprints at 668, 1112, and 1300 cm−1 linked to glomerular changes.
- Why it matters: Kidney’s high metabolic demand makes it vulnerable to microplastics, but the antioxidant targets and the specific metabolic shifts they trigger are not well defined.
- What they did: Mice were exposed to polypropylene-MPs, then Raman spectra and untargeted metabolomics were combined with neural-network modeling and docking to assess antioxidant gene expression and protein structure disruption.
- The result: The exposure is linked to oxidative stress, lesions and fibrosis, and metabolite shifts indicating detoxification overload, phospholipid remodeling, mitochondrial energy crisis, and nutritional exhaustion, correlated with Raman fingerprints.
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