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Böhmert, L., Stock, V. & Braeuning, A. Plausibility of microplastic uptake in a paper by Deng et al., Scientific reports 7:46687, 2017. Arch Toxicol 93, 217–218 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-018-2383-9
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