Abstract Choroid plexus (ChP), a vascularized secretory epithelium located in all brain ventricles, plays critical roles in development, homeostasis and brain repair.Reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) is a popular and useful technique for measuring gene expression changes and also widely used in ChP studies.However, the reli
Aml I Mekkawy,1 Mohamed A El-Mokhtar,2 Nivien A Nafady,3 Naeima Yousef,3 Mostafa A Hamad,4 Sohair M El-Shanawany,5 Ehsan H Ibrahim,5 Mahmoud Elsabahy5–8 1Department of Pharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sohag University, Sohag, 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, 3Department of Botany and Mi
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a chronic psychiatric illness, affecting up to 3% of the general population, to the midle of 60-th it was supposed to be untreatable.Antidepressant pharmacotherapy is one of the treatment alternatives today.We compared efficacy and safety of citalopram versus clomipramine (serotoninergic antidepressants) in 6 weeks