On the physiological function of lithium from a psychiatric view point.

abstract：:Chronic Interstitial Nephritis in Agricultural Communities (CINAC) continues to attract controversy in the scientific community. It was previously known as Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) and is not associated with the common aetiological factors such as diabetes. There is general acceptance that it ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rodrigo C,Nawarathne P,Jayasinghe S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel coronavirus (NCoV-19), also known as SARS CoV-2, is a pathogen causing an emerging infection that rapidly increases in incidence and geographic range, is associated with the ever-increasing morbidity and mortality rates, and shows sever economic impact worldwide. The WHO declares the NCoV-19 infection disease (C...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mani Mishra P,Uversky VN,Nandi CK

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty years ago, circumstantial evidence was compiled to link the 1918 pandemic influenza virus to a CNS disorder called epidemic encephalitis or encephalitis lethargica. A challenge was issued to naysayers. During the past two decades, the knowledge about the influenza virus and the 1918 pandemic virus in particular...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Maurizi CP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using order parameters from field theory, the paper rationalizes the statistics of myeloid and erythroid leukemias more satisfactorily than the random mutation hypothesis. Adapted to B- and plasma cell lineages, the same arguments conceptualize the statistics of related malignancies congruently to clinical findings. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Matioli GT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy is a disorder characterized by the sudden urge to sleep. The biochemical etiology of this disorder is believed to be due to dopamine abnormalities. Since the precursor of dopamine is L-tyrosine, the administration of this amino acid may prove beneficial in the treatment of narcolepsy. Preliminary research a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Roufs JB

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP sensitive (K(+)(ATP)) potassium cardiac channels are recruited when ATP levels are low as in ischemic injury and acute trauma. Such activation results in ECG-ST elevation and cardiac arrhythmias. K(+)(ATP) channel recruitment may be blocked by the sulfonylurea glibenclamide, permitting a wide variety of animal exp...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hoffman I,Saltzman B

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome imprinting has an essential role in normal embryonal mammalian development. Starting early in differentiation, the transcripts of certain human genes, e.g. the paternally-H19 and the maternally-imprinted IGF2, are expressed in specific tissues and organs during fetal life. In several malignant disorders, imprin...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Biran H,Ariel I,De Groot N,Hochberg A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a decade ago, I formulated the hypothesis that cumulative effects of exposure to high intracranial pressure (ICP) may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD), though not necessarily in an exclusive way. In addition to individual ICP characteristics (high 'physiological' ICP) and diseases causing...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wostyn P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that apart from aflatoxins, plant medicinal preparations containing active compounds imperatorin, dictamine, marmesin and heraclenin may be responsible for some human cancers in Nigeria and perhaps other parts of Africa. Therefore, in this paper, a hypothesis is put forward that these compounds or thei...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Adekunle AA,Adekunle LV

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has been the subject of many studies, but remains little understood. Previous work has shown that there is a correlation between the uncoupled spinal neuro-osseous growth and AIS. We believe that this uncoupled spinal neuro-osseous growth may also contribute to...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yang Z,Xie Y,Li M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciding for an amputation in case of complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I) is controversial. Evidence for favorable or adverse effects of an amputation is weak. We therefore follow a careful and well-structured decision making process. After referral of the patient with the request to amputate the affected l...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schrier E,Dijkstra PU,Zeebregts CJ,Wolff AP,Geertzen JHB

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that covalent modifications to the genomic platform in the brain, that is DNA and its surrounding histones, provide a stable potentially lifelong mechanism for remembrance. Consequently, the making and unmaking of memories is accessible through pharmacological manipulations of these modificati...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gavin DP,Chase KA,Sharma RP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aquatic Ape Theory claims that human ancestors once lived in a semi-aquatic habitat. Some human diseases might be explained by our aquatic past. Such problems include hyperventilation, periodic breathing, laryngo- and bronchospasm, vasomotor rhinopathy, seborrhea, dandruff, male pattern alopecia, rhinophyma, osteo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Verhaegen MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:So-called 'limited life span' of diploid cells does not depend on their unresponsiveness to growth factors from the data obtained by complete protein-free culture of tumor cells. Limited proliferation (called limited life span) of diploid cells is one of the 'ad-hoc' negative regulatory mechanisms in animals, and can ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chigira M,Watanabe H

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia represents a major serious side-effect of chronic therapy with neuroleptic drugs. The pathomechanisms underlying this disorder are not well understood. Although the dopaminergic supersensitivity theory has gained most attention, there is evidence to suggest involvement of other t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sandyk R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blockage of a vena cava filter (VCF) by the captured blood clots presents a serious problem to the patients. Commercially available cone-shaped VCFs such as the Gunther Tulip filter has an inherent structural flaw that leads the captured blood clots to be trapped in their front spire areas where the flow-induced s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chen Z,Fan Y,Deng X

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic efficacy of thalidomide in erythema nodosum leprosum suggests that thalidomide might play a useful therapeutic role in other human immune-complex diseases. Thalidomide has shown anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressive actions in several animal models. Current evidence suggests that its rapid activity in...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hendler SS,McCarty MF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulvodynia (vulvar pain syndrome) is a chronic multifactorial disease affecting almost 13 million women in the USA and can lead to morbidity and a reduced quality of life. We hypothesize that an initial microbiological insult in the vagina causes modifications in the biological vaginal milieu and/or an alteration on t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ventolini G,Gygax SE,Adelson ME,Cool DR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a recently discovered multimeric inflammatory mediator that is structurally linked to short pentraxins, such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid P component. PTX3 is produced by a variety of tissues and cells, including vascular endothelial cells and macrophages. Because of its ext...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Parlak A,Iyisoy A,Aydogan U,Cakir E,Saglam K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work some aspects of carcinogenesis are given. The importance of the emergence of Z or H DNA structure in the gene, or in the flanking gene sequences for the gene deletion and unusual gene recombination, is discussed. Some considerations on the role of selective pressure (of polyamines, of Mg2+, of the various...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Juranic Z,Kidric M,Tomin R,Juranić I,Spuzić I,Petrović J

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a condition that may be marked by abdominal pain, bloating, fullness, indigestion, belching, constipation and/or diarrhea. IBS symptoms can result from malabsorption of fructose. Fructose is a monosaccharide found naturally in small quantities in fruits and some vegetables, and in muc...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： DiNicolantonio JJ,Lucan SC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new hypothesis claiming that natriuresis of fasting is not only caused by diminished insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia with the subsequent reduction of renal sodium retention but it can also be attributed to the function of the leptin-NPY system. Each element of this concept has been substantiate...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sulyok E,Tulassay T

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury is an important cause of neonatal mortality and subsequent serious neurological sequel. In neonatal brain the severity of hypoxic injury varies most probably due to the effects of multiple protective or deleterious factors. But the mechanisms under this difference are still not full under...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kumral A,Tuzun F,Yesilirmak D,Duman N,Ozkan H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty percent of cases of clinical depression are considered to be treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Magnesium-deficiency causes N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) coupled calcium channels to be biased towards opening, causing neuronal injury and neurological dysfunction, which may appear to humans as major depression. O...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eby GA 3rd,Eby KL

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus (EBOV) infection is associated with modulation of cytokine expression in infected patients. EBOV has been shown to interact directly with immune cells (at minimum with macrophages and dendritic cells) and modulation of cytokine expression has also been observed in vitro, which is similar to that in vivo. T...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Denner J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melasma is an acquired disorder of pigmentation that presents with asymptomatic symmetric darkening of the face. The pathogenesis of this condition is multifactorial and influenced by several factors including female sex hormones, genetic predisposition and ultraviolet light exposure. The management of melasma is usua...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cohen PR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death prematurely claims the lives of some 7 million each year worldwide. It occurs primarily in patients with an underlying structural cardiac abnormality, and regardless of the type of the underlying pathology (heart failure, dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies, myocardial infarction and aging),...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sovari AA,Morita N,Weiss JN,Karagueuzian HS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural objects, live and inanimate, actively maintain their entities by using their capacities (i.e., properties, internal resources, mechanisms, and experience) adequately to their needs. It is suggested that the principle of adequate function is a law of nature. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yabrov A

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive carcinoma originates from the epithelial cells lining the lumen of an organ. It is often preceded by metaplasia, dysplasia or carcinoma in situ. The purpose of this review is to suggest that this disease of the epithelium may be, in part, the result of underlying tissue-based disorganization. Human cancer is ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schwartz L,Balosso J,Baillet F,Brun B,Amman JP,Sasco AJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the classical ideal is that scientific theories are evaluated by a careful teasing-out of their internal logic and external implications, and checking whether these deductions and predictions are in-line-with old and new observations; the fact that so many vague, dumb or incoherent scientific theories are app...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Charlton BG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00