Valentina Notarstefano

TL;DR: Six human placentas, collected from consenting women with physiological pregnancies, were analyzed by Raman Microspectroscopy to evaluate the presence of microplastics, finding 12 microplastic fragments, with spheric or irregular shape, in total.

TL;DR: The most abundant microplastics were composed of polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene, with sizes ranging from 2 to 12 µm, and the detected microparticles were classified according to their shape, color, dimensions, and chemical composition as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: The results obtained at hepatic level pinpointed the steatotic effect of all the administered diets, associated to a modulation of the expression of genes involved in lipid metabolism, indicating that the administration of mixture of contaminants exerts a milder lipogenic effect, highlighting the contrasting/antagonistic interaction establishing among chemicals.

TL;DR: Analysis of BPA and DGB by FT-IR revealed that exposure to both compounds lead to changes in the biochemical composition of liver, providing a support for the hypothesis that BPAand DGB may be among the environmental contaminants with obesogenic property.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that exposure to DiNP adversely affect oocytes growth and maturation, leading to abnormal gonadal development and reproduction in zebrafish, provided by qPCR analysis, histology and Fourier transform infrared imaging.