Research Article

A New In Vivo Model System to Assess the Toxicity of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Table 1

Comparison of Mean (SE) lethal concentration (LC50) and lethal time (LT50) for TGA- and GSH-capped QDs.

LC50 (nM)QDLT50 (hr)

Time (h)TGA-QDsGSH-QDsTGA-QDs 300 nM36
24687.04 (27.9)TGA-QDs 500 nM24
48232.89 (31.5)629.99 (18.8)GSH-QDs 500 nM63
72153.24 (18.9)434.29 (15.3)GSH-QDs 1000 nM32