Fig. 8
From: The adsorption of drugs on nanoplastics has severe biological impact
Effects of polystyrene (PS, 250 nm or 1.1 \(\upmu\)m mean particle size), polyethylene (PE, size range 0.2–9.9 \(\upmu\)m) or polyethylene terephthalate (PET, 1.9 \(\upmu\)m mean particle size) microplastic particles at given concentrations on tetracycline-induced expression of a dsRed or IRFP670 fluorescent reporter in mouse or human cells, respectively. The percentage of dsRed or IRFP670 induction was normalized to the effects of tetracycline only [16 \(\upmu\)g/ml] (n = 3). Statistical significance *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001 was assessed by a two-tailed t-test. ns not significant.
