{"id":219457,"date":"2025-08-05T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/exposure-to-nanoplastics-could-induce-spread-of-alzheimers-disease-from-the-brain-to-other-organs"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:16:02","slug":"exposure-to-nanoplastics-could-induce-spread-of-alzheimers-disease-from-the-brain-to-other-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/exposure-to-nanoplastics-could-induce-spread-of-alzheimers-disease-from-the-brain-to-other-organs","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to nanoplastics could induce spread of Alzheimer\u2019s disease from the brain to other organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exposure-to-nanoplastics-could-induce-spread-of-alzheimers-disease-from-the-brain-to-other-organs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new preclinical study has found exposure to nanoplastics may contribute to the rapid progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and subsequent spread from the brain to other key organs such as the liver, heart and gut.<\/p>\n<p>The research, \u201cCerebral to Systemic Representations of Alzheimer\u2019s Pathogenesis Stimulated by Polystyrene Nanoplastics,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/envhealth.5c00160\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Environment &amp; Health.<\/p>\n<p>The study, co-led by Monash University and South China University of Technology, investigated how environmental-level polystyrene <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nanoplastic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoplastic<\/a> exposure influences the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease from the brain to other parts of the body. Studies in mice revealed that nanoplastic-induced neurological damage is not confined within the brain, but expands systemically through the gut\u2013liver\u2013brain axis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new preclinical study has found exposure to nanoplastics may contribute to the rapid progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and subsequent spread from the brain to other key organs such as the liver, heart and gut. The research, \u201cCerebral to Systemic Representations of Alzheimer\u2019s Pathogenesis Stimulated by Polystyrene Nanoplastics,\u201d is published in the journal Environment &amp; [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}