introduction: the estrogen receptors are potential candidates in prognosis and particularly in predicting hormone response therapy in breast cancer. the aim of this study was to measure erα gene expression due to study of the association between erα expression, age and menopause of iranian women with breast cancer. methods: 21 adenocarcinoma cases with grade 2 and 10 normal samples were screene...

introduction: brain-derived neurotrophic factor (bdnf) and its receptor, trkb, in the hippocampus are targets for adverse effects of stress paradigms in addition, bdnf and its receptor play key role in the pathology of brain diseases like depression. in the present study, we evaluated the possible role of hippocampal bdnf in depression during pregnancy, methods: to achieve the purpose, repeated...