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Owing to portal blood flow, sinusoidal architecture and Kupffer cell activity, the liver appears to be one of the principal sites of early particle sequestration. Human biomonitoring, ex vivo and postmortem studies have detected MNPs in blood and multiple organs, including the liver, although the currently available evidence remains limited and methodologically heterogeneous. Their identification relies on multistep analytical procedures that integrate sample pretreatment with FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, LD-IR, Py-GC-MS and supplementary imaging methods. However, each of these techniques presents significant limitations, particularly in the analysis of nanoplastics. Experimental studies indicate that MNPs may induce hepatic injury through oxidative stress, mitochondrial impairment, endoplasmic reticulum stress, inflammation, DNA damage, dysregulated lipid metabolism and disruption of the gut\u2013liver axis, consequently contributing to steatosis, cholestatic anomalies and fibrosis. 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