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  "abstract": "Polystyrene (PS) micro- and nanoplastics show heterogeneous in vitro cytotoxicity across particle characteristics and exposure conditions. We examined whether geometry-derived administered-dose metrics improve out-of-study prediction of in vitro cytotoxicity and whether ≤100 nm restriction improves performance independently of study composition. From the 2443 literature-derived observations across 98 mammalian in vitro studies, 1701 observations from 82 studies formed the primary mass-concentration dataset and 995 from 60 studies formed the ≤100 nm subset. Random forests were evaluated using nested study-grouped cross-validation with inverse-study-frequency weights. A matched dataset of 141 observations from six studies enabled leave-one-article-out comparisons of mass, particle-number, and geometric surface-area metrics. In the nanoscale subset, observation-level mean absolute error decreased from 15.36 to 14.37 percentage points and R2 increased from 0.283 to 0.447, whereas study-balanced mean absolute error did not improve (15.37 versus 15.60). In a composition-controlled 22-study analysis evaluated on identical nanoscale test observations, nanoscale-only training showed no clear advantage. Ridge regression favored mass concentration, while random forest showed a small, uncertain particle-number advantage. Geometry-derived administered-dose metrics offered no consistent model-independent advantage. Study-mean R2 (0.095) indicates limited generalizability. Mass concentration remains a practical reference within this evidence base; standardized reporting is needed, and geometry-derived metrics reflect administered, not delivered, dose.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "Department of Pharmacy Services, Vocational School of Health Services, Lokman Hekim University, Ankara 06510, Türkiye",
    "Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, KTO Karatay University, Konya 42020, Türkiye"
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      "name": "Deniz Özkan Vardar",
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      "name": "Necati Vardar",
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  "doi": "10.3390/polym18202575",
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  "pdf_url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13709059/pdf/?tool=EBI",
  "pmcid": "PMC13709059",
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  "published": "2026-10-01",
  "publisher": "MDPI AG",
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  "title": "Study-Grouped Predictive Toxicology of In Vitro Polystyrene Micro- and Nanoplastic Cytotoxicity: Geometry-Derived Administered-Dose Metrics and a Nanoscale-Restricted Sensitivity Analysis",
  "title_text": "Study-Grouped Predictive Toxicology of In Vitro Polystyrene Micro- and Nanoplastic Cytotoxicity: Geometry-Derived Administered-Dose Metrics and a Nanoscale-Restricted Sensitivity Analysis",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/b57hp31y6kef4",
  "venue": "Polymers",
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