COMMENTARY The Subiculum Comes of Age

Women’s Education and World Peace: A Feminist Dream Comes True; Comment on “The Pill Is Mightier Than the Sword”

This commentary on Potts et al provides a critical view on their thesis that increasing the level of education among women is likely to reduce terrorism. Presence of a strong family planning program enables women to control family size resulting in women’s public participation more likely and facilitating the emergence of small birth cohorts who are less likely to become unemployed. In spite of...

اثرات تاموکسیفن بر فراساختار و تعداد سلولهای هیپوکامپ جنین و نوزاد The Effects of Tamoxifen on Ultrastructure and the Number of Hippocampal Cells in Rat’s Fetus and Neonate

    Background & Aim: Maternal steroids modulate various functions in the brain. However, tamoxifen(TAM) treatment, as an estrogen antagonist, induces cell death in the hippocampus formation of a prenatal and postnatal rat. Estrogen influences cognitive functions, learning process, aging, vasodilation, angiogenesis, neurogenesis and neuroprotection. The present study deals with the effects of t...

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences comes of age on the 20th anniversary of publication

Study of the effects of maternal hypothyroidism and thyroxin therapy on the neuronal density of subiculum in rat newborns

Introduction: It is well established that thyroid hormones are essential for normal development of mammalian brain. Thyroid hormone deficiency during critical period of brain development can exert devastative and irreversible effects on neuronal functions as well as on learning abilities and memory. The aim of the present investigation was to investigate the effects of maternal hypothyroidis...

“Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray).”

In the verse “Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray)” Abraham’s position is an intense discussion among Fariqain commentators. Commentary of this verse as Mosalla of Tawaf prayer and Tawaf area has a practical and jurisprudential role during Hajj and Umrah. On commentary of Abraham’s position and his status, more than six exegetic viewpoints have been proposed fro...