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Adsorption of progesterone onto microplastics and its desorption in simulated gastric and intestinal fluids

Siri, Cécilia  
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Liu, Yang
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Masset, Thibault  
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September 13, 2021
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts

The sorption of Hydrophobic Organic Compound (HOC) onto microplastics is relatively well reported in the literature, while their desorption remains poorly investigated, and especially in biological fluids. The present study investigated the sorption and desorption of progesterone on polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and polystyrene (PS) microplastics. The sorption experiments showed that the equilibrium was reached in a few hours for all plastics. A sorption efficiency of 357.1 µg/g was found for PE and PS and 322.6µg/g for PP. Sorption experiments indicated that adsorption would happen certainly via surface sorption and potentially pore-filling mechanism. The desorption was carried out in Simulated Gastric Fluid (SGF) and Simulated Intestinal Fluid (SIF), whose formulations were more complex than similar models reported so far. It has been found that the desorption was higher in SIF compared to SGF, surely due to micelle formation in SIF promoting the pollutant solubilization. Sorption of pepsin onto microplastics has also been revealed, suggesting a competition between pollutant and pepsin for sorption sites and a potent reduction of pollutant solubilization. This study indicates that microplastics ingestion could be considered as as additional route of exposure of pollutants and therefore emphasizes pollutants bioavailability for aquatic organisms.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/D1EM00226K
Author(s)
Siri, Cécilia  
Liu, Yang
Masset, Thibault  
Dudefoi, William
oldham, Dean
Minghetti, Matteo
Grandjean, Dominique  
Breider, Florian  
Date Issued

2021-09-13

Published in
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
Volume

23

Issue

10

Start page

1566

End page

1577

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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September 14, 2021
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/181421
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