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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 768201, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/768201
Research Article

Nanoparticles of Conjugated Methotrexate-Human Serum Albumin: Preparation and Cytotoxicity Evaluations

Azade Taheri,1 Fatemeh Atyabi,1,2 Faranak Salman Nouri,1 Fatemeh Ahadi,1 Mohammad Ali Derakhshan,1 Mohsen Amini,3 Mohammad Hossein Ghahremani,2,4 Seyed Nasser Ostad,2,4 Pooria Mansoori,5 and Rassoul Dinarvand1,2

1Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 14155-6451, Tehran, Iran
2Nanotechnology Research Centre, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4Drug Design and Development Research Centre, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5Faculty of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Science, P.O. Box 12244-9876, Ahvaz, Iran

Received 1 June 2010; Revised 5 July 2010; Accepted 1 August 2010

Academic Editor: Libo Wu

Copyright © 2011 Azade Taheri et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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