Publications by authors named "Houpu Ren"
Article Synopsis
- - Glabridin, commonly used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, is extracted from licorice but can contain harmful impurities, specifically glabrene, which poses significant toxicity risks.
- - Toxicity tests using zebrafish revealed that glabrene has a lethal concentration (LC) of 2.8 μM, causing severe malformations, disrupted development, reduced mobility, and brain damage in the larvae.
- - Analysis showed that glabrene triggers abnormal activation of the phenylalanine metabolic pathway, leading to increased levels of dopamine and acetylcholine, highlighting the need for improved safety and quality control in licorice-based products.
Before being discharged into natural environment, almost all of microplastics (MPs) interact with wastewater constituents in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This study investigated the photoaging of disposable box-derived polystyrene (PS) mediated by real wastewater by simulating the case flowing from WWTPs to natural water. Results showed that wastewater influent pretreatment significantly enhanced the photoaging of PSMPs through the sorption of wastewater constituents, e.
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