From: Oral absorption of PEG-coated versus uncoated gold nanospheres: does agglomeration matter?
6 Hour | 12 Hour | 24 Hour | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total Au content (ng) | Total Au content (ng) | Total Au content (ng) | ||||
(SD) | (SD) | (SD) | ||||
PEG-coated | Uncoated | PEG-coated | Uncoated | PEG-coated | Uncoated | |
Blood | 22.2 | 18.7 | 38.1 | 13.2 | 227.1* | 93.8 |
(5.0) | (6.7) | (26.2) | (2.2) | (120.6) | (32.5) | |
Liver | 378.1** | 103.0 | 162.3 | 89.1 | 21.2 | 19.1 |
(166.9) | (12.1) | (81.8) | (20.6) | (3.7) | (3.7) | |
Spleen | 3.8 | 9.4 | 18.2 | 2.2 | 15.3** | 11.1 |
(1.0) | (14.6) | (18.9) | (0.8) | (2.3) | (1.4) | |
Kidney | 13.1 | 9.3 | 19.3 | 9.5 | 13.6*** | 9.3 |
(2.5) | (1.3) | (10.8) | (1.1) | (1.9) | (1.2) | |
Heart | 219.1** | 10.4 | 40.6** | 9.0 | 21.6*** | 6.1 |
(155.5) | (3.3) | (15.0) | (1.7) | (6.9) | (0.7) | |
Lung | 5.5 | 66.1 | 12.4 | 3.7 | 4.4*** | 2.9 |
(0.4) | (124.9) | (10.0) | (1.0) | (0.8) | (0.1) | |
Testes | 2.5 | 3.1 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
(0.2) | (1.1) | (4.8) | (0.3) | (0.5) | (0.4) | |
Brain | 1.8 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 1.5** | 0.6 |
(0.3) | (0.1) | (3.6) | (0.3) | (0.5) | (0.1) |