A pilot study in non-human primates shows no adverse response to intravenous injection of quantum dots

• Main Authors: Ye, Ling, Yong, Ken-Tye, Liu, Liwei, Roy, Indrajit, Hu, Rui, Zhu, Jing, Cai, Hongxing, Law, Wing-Cheung, Liu, Jianwei, Wang, Kai, Liu, Jing, Liu, Yaqian, Hu, Yazhuo, Zhang, Xihe, Swihart, Mark T., Prasad, Paras N.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97385; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10626
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Quantum dots have been used in biomedical research for imaging1, 2, diagnostics3, 4 and sensing purposes5, 6. However, concerns over the cytotoxicity of their heavy metal constituents7, 8 and conflicting results from in vitro7, 9 and small animal10, 11, 12, 13, 14 toxicity studies have limited their...