Haemolysis (%) caused by citrate stabilized and green AuNP in blood cells in concentration when incubated for 90 minutes^a.

AuNP concentration	Haemolysis (%) caused by citrate stabilized AuNP	Haemolysis (%) caused by green AuNP
0.25 μL mL−1	22.9683 ± 0.015	5.116 ± 0.02
0.50 μL mL−1	33.5274 ± 0.016	8.069 ± 0.04
1.0 μL mL−1	85.773 ± 0.020	10.399 ± 0.02
2.5 μL mL−1	93.4276 ± 0.050	24.5424 ± 0.04
5.0 μL mL−1	112.22 ± 0.200	45.5906 ± 0.40

^aData are represented as mean ± SD, each experiment was performed in triplicate and samples were from five subjects.