Renally Excretable Silver Telluride Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents for X-ray Imaging.

ABSTRACT: The use of nanoparticles in the biomedical field has gained much attention due to their applications in biomedical imaging, drug delivery, and therapeutics. Silver telluride nanoparticles (Ag₂Te NPs) have been recently shown to be highly effective computed tomography (CT) and dual-energy mammography contrast agents with good stability and biocompatibility, as well as to have potential for many other biomedical purposes. Despite their numerous advantageous properties for diagnosis and treatment of disease, the clinical translation of Ag₂Te NPs is dependent on achieving high levels of excretion, a limitation for many nanoparticle types. In this work, we have synthesized and characterized a library of Ag₂Te NPs and identified conditions that led to 3 nm core s

SUBMITTER: Nieves LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482380 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature