Journal
TOXICOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL HEALTH
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 100-111Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/07482337211065832
Keywords
Polyvinyl chloride; microplastic; cytotoxicity; isolated lymphocytes; oxidative stress
Funding
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
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This study aimed to evaluate the cytotoxicity of PVC microplastics on human and fish blood lymphocytes. The results showed that human lymphocytes were more sensitive to PVC microplastic toxicity compared to fish lymphocytes, and this toxicity was associated with factors such as intracellular ROS formation and lysosomal membrane injury.
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) microplastics are emerging contaminants affecting biological wastewater treatment processes. So far, the toxicological investigation of PVC microplastics usually focused on the anaerobic and denitrifying bacteria. It seems that the primary lymphocytes isolated from peripheral blood are more sensitive than most other organ cell types in vitro; therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the cytotoxicity of PVC microplastic on human and fish blood lymphocytes as a useful ex vivo model for accelerated human toxicity studies. Using biochemical analyses, we showed human lymphocytes are more sensitive to toxic effects of PVC microplastic than fish lymphocytes. Our result showed that addition of PVC microplastic at 24, 48, and 96 mu g/ml for 3 h to human blood lymphocytes induced cytotoxicity. The PVC microplastic-induced cytotoxicity on human blood lymphocytes was associated with intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation, lysosomal membrane injury, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) collapse, depletion of glutathione, and lipid peroxidation. According to our results, PVC microplastic particles induce oxidative stress and organelle damage in human lymphocytes, while these significant alterations in toxicity parameters in PVC microplastic-treated fish lymphocytes were not observed. Finally, our findings suggest that human lymphocytes are more sensitive to PVC microplastic toxicity compared with fish lymphocytes.
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