Letter to the Editor: Microplastics as promoters of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Mechanistic insights and implications

Figure 1 Microplastics and nanoplastics may induce and exacerbate metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease by causing lysosomal dysfunction, thereby impairing the late stages of bulk and selective autophagy, such as lipophagy, and blocking autophagic flux. MPs: Microplastics; NPs: Nanoplastics; MASLD: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.