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Introduction: Experimental data show that polystyrene, a type of microplastic (MP), is implicated in the reduction of bone mass, number of trabeculae and its increased spacing, in addition to the reduction of the size of long bones in pubertal mice, through the acceleration of osteoblast senescence, by the reduction of the expression of the Runx2 gene, among other factors. Recently, it wa…