Figure 3.

Kinetics of DNA damage repair in peripheral blood mononuclear cells isolated from the patients with depression and controls without psychiatric disturbances measured by an alkaline version of comet assay as a percent DNA in comets’ tails. Forty patients and 46 controls were analyzed. The number of cells scored for each individual was 100 and the analysis was repeated twice. Error bars denote SEM, p<0.001 at each time point of the kinetics when comparing patients to controls.