Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on Guam and influenza revisited: focusing on neurofibrillary tangles and the trail of tau.

abstract：:In the present study, we used the potential of bioinformatics and computational analysis to predict the existence and biological relevance of zinc finger (ZF) motifs in heamagglutinin (HA) protein of Avian Influenza (AI) virus. Sequence data of Avian Influenza (AI) viruses were retrieved from accessible databases (Gen...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Muraina IA,Meseko CA,Fasina FO

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple reports show the efficacious usage of ECT for catatonia in individuals with autism. There are also a few reports showing that ECT improves self-injury in people with and without autism. In this hypothesis, self-injury in autism and other developmental disorders may be an alternate sign of catatonia, and as su...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wachtel LE,Dhossche DM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of the unripe fruit of Momordica charantia--bitter melon, which flourishes throughout the tropics--appear to have utility in the management of type 2 diabetes. Rodent studies suggest that the thus-far-uncharacterized active components of such extracts enhance the efficiency of postprandial glucose storage in ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disorder with significant global health care burden, causes chronic microvascular and macrovascular complications that still comprise a therapeutic challenge. Angiotensin-(1-7), a heptapeptide with vasodilatory properties, has been found to restore vascular reactivity and endothelial cel...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kibel A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with Down syndrome have signs of possible brain damage prior to birth. In addition to slowed and reduced mental development, they are much more likely to have cognitive deterioration and develop dementia at an earlier age than individuals without Down syndrome. Some of the cognitive impairments are likely ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Thiel R,Fowkes SW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly two million people suffer traumatic brain injury in the US each year. These injuries alter adversely the metabolism of myelin, a major lipid material in brain, both in people and in experimental injuries of animals. A newly discovered and severe human neuropathy from copper deficiency provides evidence that som...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Klevay LM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) not only have increased risk of hypothyroidism, they also tend to develop a relatively novel mild form of neonatal hypothyroidism. One problem that may predispose those with trisomy 21 to hypothyroidism is the overexpression of the gene DYRK1A, which may have an affect on the thyroi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Thiel R,Fowkes SW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no secret that despite the rapid development of new methods of cancer therapy, we still are not able to completely destroy the tumor. Every time we attack the tumor, the tumor neutralizes our attempts. Carcinogenesis can be presented as a tree whose branches are different pro-tumor mechanisms and whose trunk ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Malyshev IY,Kuznetsova LV,Mardente S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presented hypothesis suggests that chronic latent malaria infection prepares the niche where the otherwise feeble HIV coinfection can thrive and cause AIDS. It is suggested that the roots of the HIV outbreak and AIDS pandemic lay in the urbanization processes in Africa that resulted in the eradication of the Anoph...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yaffe I

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All kinds of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the mechanism of tumorigenesis. Up until now, we have not had any generally acknowledged model that helps us understand the process. In this paper, I propose a dynamic model of how tumor cells escape the supervision of the immune system; I also examine the possibil...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cai DW

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a tissue that requires a genetic program, possibly involving hundreds of genes, as indicated by studies of differential gene expression performed with microarrays in various types of cancer. Cancer is thus a biological process of considerable precision as described by Schrödinger's equation, and it is not si...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Garcia-Garcia A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder is described as a classic biopsychosocial disorder resulting from complex interactions of biological, psychological, socioeconomic and cultural forces on women. To understand women suffering from the disorder, one must understand how the genetically designed female brain and body i...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Severino SK

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a life-threatening disease requiring rapid diagnosis and treatment. Steroid hormones (e.g., estradiol, dehydroepiandosterone) have been suggested to reduce the hyper-inflammatory response of the immune system and to improve outcome in sepsis. We hypothesize that the impact of steroid hormones on the metaboli...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lehmann C,Sharawy N,Zhou J,Pavlovic D

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which polyglutamine expansions in several proteins lead to neurodegenerative disorders remains largely unknown. The biochemical properties of polyglutamine repeats suggest one possible explanation; endolytic cleavage at a glutaminyl-glutaminyl bond followed by pyroglutamate formation may contribute to...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Saido TC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author reviews the criticism aimed at medical education and suggests that its shortcomings could be corrected by modifying the curriculum so that irrelevant material is eliminated and replaced in part with the humanities. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Prioreschi P

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AIDS dementia complex and peripheral neuropathy in AIDS are considered to be direct or indirect manifestations of HIV infection, yet the pathogenesis in unclear. There are parallels between AIDS and Tangier disease clinically and histopathologically and in lipid metabolism. The neurological disorders in AIDS may b...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Falkenbach A,Klauke S,Althoff PH

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to search for periodical fluctuations in daily occurrence of gout attacks during the synodic lunar cycle. 126 gout attacks were recorded between 1972 and 1994 at known calendar dates. The synodic plexogram, displaying the number of attacks for each day of the cycle, was processed by cosinor regression. A p...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mikulecký M,Rovenský J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water proton spin lattice relaxation time of normal and tumorous tissues of human and radiosensitivity yield a linear relationship. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Akber SF

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterized by recurrent episodes of mood dysregulations and depression is considered as the most frequent form of relapse. However, there is some evidence that in tropical countries, the course might be different with fewer depressive episodes. This study aims to examine the frequ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Narayanaswamy JC,Moily N,Kubendran S,Reddy YC,Jain S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body size and body composition have been suggested as the best explanation for the temporal trend toward early menarche over the last 100 years. There is evidence from human and animal studies that indicates that body size is not the primary factor in influencing the occurrence of menarche. The data actually show that...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sanchez A,Kissinger DG,Phillips RI

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high rate of mutation which is inherent in reverse transcription of the HIV genome is a result of the lack of proof-reading function of the reverse transcriptase enzyme. This has allowed the HIV virus to develop resistance to multiple antiviral agents. It may be possible to use this viral property to advantage by ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Peasley K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiac disease is an immune mediated disorder, the only one with a well-established origin, resulting from a permanent gluten intolerance. Although a gluten-free diet is currently the "safe" and appropriate therapy for celiac disease, this is not always an easy and simple option as "harmful" gluten may contaminate foo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ivanovski PI,Ivanovski IP,Sedlarevic R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient attention has been given to reports in the literature describing patients with symptomatic migraine who, in addition to, or instead of, the well-recognized zones of hypofusion, have zones of hyperperfusion, which can be interpreted as hypermetabolism due to neuronal activation. A new neural theory of migr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eggers AE

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that Hematopoiesis is under CNS control has been discussed in the literature; but never been conclusively proved at the molecular level. Evidence in the form of antigenic similarity between murine brain and the Stem Cell, and the decline in the number of Stem Cells following the lesioning of the Locus ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bhander MS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial treatment for hypotension due to blood loss is intravenous fluids. Occasionally there is need for additional medication, as well as stopping the source of the bleeding. The literature in the main discusses the use of dopamine. Ephedrine has not been reviewed as useful in such situations. This article discu...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eldor J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) is reviewed and discussed using Rothman's deterministic model for causal inference. Intercontinental comparisons, familial aggregation, seasonal variation, maternal age, breast-feeding and infectious agents are reviewed within the context of IDDM causation. Ge...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sumburèru D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over-degradation of extracellular components by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) has been implicated as an important characteristic during the pathological evolution of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and cerebral aneurysm (CA), which contribute to progressive dilation of vascular wall. However, mRNA and protein e...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhou X,Ji WJ,Tu Y,Yao M,Li YM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary animal fat increases the risk of colorectal cancer. A factor in the increased risk is hypothesised to result from the inhibition of isoforms of a colonic epithelial cell enzyme that detoxifies genotoxins, glutathione S-transferase, by one of the major secondary bile acids produced in the colon by fat digestion...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schneider H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several earlier observations by us and other investigators led us to propose a thesis that B lymphocytes, when activated by a virus, allo-antigen or bacterial protein would enter into effector arm of the immune response and cause allograft and tumor rejection or GVH-type of lesion in immunosuppressed animals. These ef...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Krishnan G

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open-angle glaucoma, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, and Meniere's disease are disorders managed by different specialties in medicine viz. ophthalmology, neurology, and otorhinolaryngology respectively. By working in silos, the similarity of these disorders is overlooked. Close inspection of these disorders reve...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Moodley A,Van Der Meyden K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00