Organic and inorganic nanoparticles have different clearance mechanisms from the brain resulting in different biological fates and retention times.
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Nance, E. Intracerebral fate of engineered nanoparticles. Nat. Nanotechnol. 19, 273–274 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01531-y
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