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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Preliminary Study on PCC-Chitosan's Ability to Enhance Microplastic Excretion in Human Stools from Healthy Volunteers.

Claudio Casella, Umberto Cornelli, Santiago Ballaz, Martino Recchia, Giuseppe Zanoni, Luis Ramos-Guerrero

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Claudio CasellaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Viale Taramelli 12, 27100 Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1806-4825
Umberto CornelliSchool of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago, IL 60660, USA.
Santiago BallazFaculty of Health Sciences, Universidad del Espiritu Santo, Samborondón P.O. Box 09-01-952, Guayas, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0001-5878-8679
Martino RecchiaMario Negri Alumni, 20156 Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Giuseppe ZanoniDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Viale Taramelli 12, 27100 Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.
Luis Ramos-GuerreroGrupo de Investigación en Bio-Quimioinformática, Carrera de Ingeniería Agroindustrial, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito 170513, Ecuador.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies have indicated that microplastics (MPs) may accumulate in the human body, potentially posing health risks. This preliminary study aimed to investigate the effect of a food supplement (FS: 0.8 g of chitosan derived from

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chitosanfood supplementhuman healthhuman stoolsmicroplasticsProcambarus clarkii

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PMID40646942
PMCPMC12248620

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