Rheumatoid arthritis is auto-immunoreaction to collagen II in cartilage happened in synovial tissue.

abstract：:Through the analysis of accumulated experimental data of cell growth, a model of unrestricted cell growth is presented here. This model is based hypothetically on the cellular commitment to senescence as in the previously presented commitment theory. Cells are divided into 3 types, namely uncommitted cells, committed ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tsuboi K,Hatabu H,Lee K,Nio Y,Tobe T,Hatanaka M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials designed to answer treatment-related questions typically compare an intervention group that receives a drug or other intervention to a control group that serves as a standard against which results of the intervention are evaluated. An observed divergence from this trend in research papers on breastfeed...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dimnjakovic J,Poljicanin T,Svajda M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasogenic brain edema occurs as a result of a diverse spectrum of central nervous system pathology. The fundamental physiologic abnormality of vasogenic brain edema is an increase in cerebral capillary permeability. It is hypothesized that the recent development of new, potent, synthetic vasopressin antagonists will m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Weinand ME

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optic neuropathy is an invaliding pathology with diverse clinical manifestation and varying causes. Current understanding of etiopathological aspects of optical neuropathy does not provide an effective treatment protocol. In this article we discuss existing treatment methods, and their effectiveness, evaluated dependi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Shkarubo AN,Nikolenko VN,Velichko AY,Sinelnikov MY

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cancer cell appears to contain two non phosphorylating glycolytic pathways in addition to phosphorylating glycolysis and the aerobic citric acid and phosphogluconate cycles. It is hypothesised that these pathways are all interconnected and in the static adult cell non phosphorylating glycolysis is in a state of co...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holt JA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many published studies about the epigenetic effects of the prenatal and infant periods on health outcomes. However, there is very little knowledge regarding the effects of the intrapartum period (labor and birth) on health and epigenetic remodeling. Although the intrapartum period is relatively short compare...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dahlen HG,Kennedy HP,Anderson CM,Bell AF,Clark A,Foureur M,Ohm JE,Shearman AM,Taylor JY,Wright ML,Downe S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burnout is a state of physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress. Burnout during residency training has gained significant attention secondary to concerns regarding job performance and patient care. The new COVID-19 pandemic has raised public health problems around the world and required a reorganization...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dimitriu MCT,Pantea-Stoian A,Smaranda AC,Nica AA,Carap AC,Constantin VD,Davitoiu AM,Cirstoveanu C,Bacalbasa N,Bratu OG,Jacota-Alexe F,Badiu CD,Smarandache CG,Socea B

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein it is hypothesized that M2-like macrophages or pre-macrophages of fetal origin might play a central role in development and closure of the neural tube. Early in embryonic development, pre-macrophages arise from the fetal yolk sac and track through the bloodstream to reach diverse embryonic tissues, where they m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Block J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a presumptive mechanism for the development of changes in respiratory function due to chronic neck pain. The patient with neck pain presents a number of factors that could constitute a predisposition of leading to a respiratory dysfunction: (a) the decreased strength of deep neck flexors and exten...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kapreli E,Vourazanis E,Strimpakos N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p27(Kip1) (here after referred to as p27) is a member of a family of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors that control cell cycle. There is a considerable evidence that p27 plays a pivotal role in multiple foundational cellular processes, including cell proliferation, cell differentiation, and apoptosis. A large number ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Guan X,Chen L,Wang J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a six-month-old girl with microcephaly, developmental delay, truncal hypotonia, left pyramidal signs, partial seizures and myoclonic spasms, born to a feverish mother. MRI showed bilateral vascular lesions in the territory of the middle cerebral arteries, prevalent in the right hemisphere, together with hy...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Spalice A,Del Balzo F,Papetti L,Nicita F,Ursitti F,Salvatori G,Iannetti P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that chronic hepatitis C is associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome which are risk factors for atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. As a result, chronic hepatitis C might be thought, through its association with metabolic syndrome, to increase the risk of myocardial infarction...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Metwally AH,Elgamal MA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meniscal graft extrusion is still an unresolved problem that affects most patients after a meniscal transplantation. Despite the advances in surgical techniques, together with the improved methods for a meniscal allograft sizing, success is only observed in up to 75% of patients after they experience a meniscal allo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Łuczkiewicz P,Daszkiewicz K,Chróścielewski J,Witkowski W,Kuik L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizure (ictal) behavior in humans has been observed and recorded since ancient times. A satisfactory solution to this vexing problem continues to elude medical science. Antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy fails to control seizures in 20% of patients with primary generalized epilepsy and 35% of patients with partial epil...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Doman G,Pelligra R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-stage initiation-progression model of cancer is widely accepted. Initiation appears to result most often from accumulation of damage to the DNA expressed as multiple mutations in the phenotype. Unsymmetrical chromosome segregation during mitosis of normal or mutated cells produces aneuploid cells and also cont...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Parris G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a novel technique of non-invasive brain stimulation which has been used to treat several neuropsychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder, chronic pain and epilepsy. Recent studies have shown that the therapeutic effects of rTMS are associated with pla...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brunoni AR,Boggio PS,Fregni F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A localized graft-versus-host reaction was used to assess the cellular immunity of mice supporting progressive growth of an allogeneic tumor. It was found that early in tumor development anti-tumor-cellular-mediated immunity was hyper-responsive, and that adherent phagocytic cells isolated from the neoplasm would inhi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Parks RC

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) continues to be elusive. While ASDs have been shown to be heritable, several environmental co-factors, such as, e.g. pre- or perinatal adverse events, could play a role in the pathogenesis of the disorder as well. Prevalence of ASDs appears to have increased in the last...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gialloreti LE,Benvenuto A,Benassi F,Curatolo P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiologic findings of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) among patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) suggest that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is insufficient for the development of KS. It was speculated that another sexually transmitted infection is responsible for the markedly increa...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rechavi G,Katzir N,Ramot B

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies indicate that aberrant amyloid precursor protein metabolism, elevated peroxidative damage, depressed energy metabolism and altered calcium homeostasis are four pivotal deleterious factors in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Cumulative evidence further suggests that these four factors are intim...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ying W

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade evidence from multiple research trajectories have converged to provide evidence that impaired glucose metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction in the brain are the critical issues laying at the root of Bipolar Disorder (BD). These developments have been paralleled by increasing recognition of the ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Campbell I,Campbell H

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results described in this paper partially agree with the hypothesis that mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) of depleted growing rats recover their antigen specific determinants after the oral administration of 20% casein for 5-9 days following the time course of antigen dependent changes observed in virgin lymph nodes. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Langini SH,López MC,Slobodianik NH,Sanahuja JC,Rio ME,Roux ME

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures which morphologically resemble treponemes have been found in material from patients suffering from latent or late latent syphilis, many of whom have received treatment in the past. These structures were also found in the blood or spinal fluid (SF) of asymptomatic patients with both positive and negative ser...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ghinsberg RC,Nitzan Y

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foster found areas with the highest incidence of SIDS in USA in 1983-1984 coincided with the highest areas recorded with the highest incidence of goitre in First World War troops (1). Reid compared the two populations described as having the highest incidence of SIDS worldwide. Both were selenium deficient areas (King...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reid G,Tervit H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential hypertension is a heterogeneous multifactorial syndrome associated with a high cardiovascular risk. A multiple choice of antihypertensive drugs is available; however, a high individual variability to the antihypertensive therapy is still responsible for a modest reduction of the CV risk and not satisfactory ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ferrari P,Ferrandi M,Valentini G,Manunta P,Bianchi G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major public health problem, which occurs in epidemic proportions. Our understanding of the systems of the brain related to energy balance has increased over the last decade. As a result, drugs most commonly used today in the management of obesity have their primary effect in modulating the balance betwee...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rosmond R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exacerbation of certain medical conditions during specific phases of the menstrual cycle has long been recognized. Mechanisms of the cyclic variations are poorly understood, but are often attributed to fluctuations in reproductive hormones. We hypothesize that normal variations in autonomic balance during the menstrua...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lee PY,Bazar KA,Yun AJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that the Persian Gulf Syndrome (PGS) is caused by beef allergy. In the first symptomless phase, as a result of an energetic US Army immunizing program, using sera with adjuvants to produce detectable antibody levels, the subjects not only developed immunity to the targeted substances, but also became s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hollander DH

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin, today, is an established drug in the regime for the prevention of myocardial infarction, especially in high-risk groups. This use of aspirin has given it a new lease of life in its tenth decade of clinical use. Aspirin is probably the oldest synthetic drug in the Pharmacopoeias today; thus one would have imag...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ghooi RB,Thatte SM,Joshi PS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that depressed patients, as a result of their illness, often experience some difficulties with their memory. This hypothesis suggests a vice-versa; that it is a gradual impairment and ultimate failure of specific memory systems that may underpin the onset and continuation of a depressive illness....

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Frais AT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00