Subjective tinnitus, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, and serotonin modulation of neural plasticity: causal or casual triad?

abstract：:The cranial nerve rhizophathy, commonly presented with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) or hemifacial spasm (HFS), is a sort of hyperexcitability disorders with higher incidence in senior Asian. In this paper, a novel hypothesis on the pathogenesis is proposed and with which some clinical phenomena are explained. In those wi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu M,Zhong J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases like myocardial infarction, complex congenital heart disease, and subsequent heart failure are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in tissue engineering arise to address the lack of available tissues and organs for transplantation because cells alone are not capable of r...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wu KH,Cui B,Yu CT,Liu YL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a striking resemblance, in amino-acid composition and properties, between one class of structural glycoproteins from connective tissue and the apo low density lipoproteins (LDL) of blood plasma. It is suggested that there is a structurally specific analogy between the early atherogenic accumulation of LDL (an...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bowness JM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyol pathway consists of two enzymes aldose reductase (AR) and sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH); the former is the first enzyme in the polyol pathway, that catalyzes the reduction of glucose to sorbitol, the latter is the second one, that converts sorbitol to fructose using by NAD(+) as a cofactor. We along with oth...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Amano S,Yamagishi S,Koda Y,Tsuneoka M,Soejima M,Okamoto T,Inagaki Y,Yamada K,Kimura H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissimilarities in spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) of water proton from one tumor to the other is due to the yield of hypoxic fraction in the tumor. The yield of higher relaxation time (T1) in the KHT tumor compared to the RIF-1 tumor as a function of growth is due to the hypoxic fraction of the tumor. The hypox...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Akber SF

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia, if not the most difficult, is one of the most difficult mysterious puzzles for psychiatrists, psychologists, and neuroscientists to solve. In this paper, based on the previously known pathologies of schizophrenia, a new model is proposed for explanation of the formation of positive psychotic symptoms of...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Javanbakht A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that the regular practice of mindfulness meditation is associated with increased physiological levels of melatonin. Melatonin may be related to a variety of biologic functions important in maintaining health and preventing disease, including breast and prostate ca...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Massion AO,Teas J,Hebert JR,Wertheimer MD,Kabat-Zinn J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypotheses generally conform to paradigms which, over time, change, usually tardily, after they have become increasingly difficult to sustain under the impact of non-conforming evidence and alternative hypotheses, but more important, when they no longer are comfortably ensconced in the surrounding social-economic-poli...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kaellis E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent studies reveal that oxidative stress, much of it generated via induction/activation of NADPH oxidase, is a key mediator of a number of the pathogenic effects of chronic ethanol overconsumption. The highly reactive ethanol metabolite acetaldehyde is a key driver of this oxidative stress, and doubtless works in o...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible mechanism for maintaining immune memory, based on idiotypic-anti-idiotypic interactions, is described. It is proposed that pendular dynamic swings in the levels of idiotypic antibodies (Ab1) and anti-idiotypic Ab2 may underlay immune memory. In the terms of the advanced concept, Ab dynamics in the maternal ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Seledtsov VI,Seledtsova GV

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over-proliferation of SMC (smooth muscle cell) is one characteristics of atherosclerosis. One well accepted mechanism is that the decrease of ECs (endothelial cells) induced by over apoptosis leads to endothelial dysfunction, which in turn results in over-proliferation of SMC. Obviously, the mechanism works after endo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Qin C,Liu Z

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last century and a half there has been a secular decline in the age of menarche in Western, industrialized cultures. This trend has been largely ascribed to improved nutrition and health, and we offer an alternative hypothesis that changes in socio-economic conditions have resulted in changes in the pheromona...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Burger J,Gochfeld M

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which blast pressure waves cause mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are an open question. Possibilities include acceleration of the head, direct passage of the blast wave via the cranium, and propagation of the blast wave to the brain via a thoracic mechanism. The hypothesis that the blas...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Courtney AC,Courtney MW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exact contribution of the sirtuin family of NAD+-dependent histone deacetylases to longevity in metazoans is, at present, not completely understood but nonetheless regarded as significant. Despite the rapidly accreting evidence solidifying the role of NAD+-dependent histone deacetylase activity in longevity-promot...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tapia PC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary reports have suggested that chronic, intermittent electrical stimulation of the cervical vagus nerve (VNS) is an effective treatment for patients who suffered from medically refractory epilepsy. But the traditional VNS is an invasive and implantable procedure that will bring some injury to the patient. Ana...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yang AC,Zhang JG,Rong PJ,Liu HG,Chen N,Zhu B

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, which is now viewed as a disease of brain with pathogenesis not fully understood. The main diagnostic methods are examining the retinal nerve fiber layer through optical coherence tomography and investigating visual field defect, but these methods pres...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sun Y,Huang W,Li F,Li H,Wang L,Huang Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer death, yet it is mechanistically considered a very inefficient process suggesting the presence of some sort of (e.g. systemic) routes for fuelling the process. The pre-metastatic niche formation is described as one such metastasis promoting route. Now, the emerging potentials ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ghasemi R,Grassadonia A,Tinari N,Piccolo E,Natoli C,Tomao F,Iacobelli S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypothetical pathogenesis for a typical case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) follows from opinions of Rowland and results of neuroscientists at Baylor. ALS might typically result from an autoimmune disorder that causes IgG to enhance release of acetylcholine (ACh) from axon terminals. Motor neuron overactivit...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brown DW

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic cancer of the oesophagus in Africa is associated with the use of maize as the staple. In one African community endemic cancer of the oesophagus has been shown to have a strong statistical association with the consumption of foods based on maize in the meal form. A strong association with consumption of maize m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sammon AM,Iputo JE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important obstacle for preventing hypertension is the belief that systemic hypertension has no identifiable cause. This belief, hiding the main offender, sodium chloride, causes too much time wasting for combating against hypertension. Accepting that sodium chloride is a drug and re-evaluating the situation a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tekol Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that the symptom complex of fibromyalgia can be seen with hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism may been categorized, like diabetes, into type I (hormone deficient) and type II (hormone resistant). Most cases of fibromyalgia fall into the latter category. The syndrome is reversible with treatment,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Garrison RL,Breeding PC

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Several hypotheses have been developed to interpret the progression of tubulointerstitial fibrosis (TF), including senescence, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, inflammation, chronic hypoxia, and reactive oxygen species. All of these hypotheses are based on persistent cell injury and localized cell death. Proliferati...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chen BC,Bai YH,Tang LL,Wang BQ,Liu B,Cai Y,Peng X,Yang YR,Zheng SL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is frequently assumed to have an hereditary origin, but what this hereditary factor is, no one really knows. Researchers are currently trying to find defects in genes which could either cause, or tend towards, the development of migraine. This approach is deemed mistaken for two reasons: firstly, pain, being ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eidelman D

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid (HA) produced by the synovium may function physiologically to aid preservation of cartilage structure and prevent arthritic pain; both the size and concentration of HA in synovial fluid are diminished in osteoarthritis (OA). Glucosamine therapy for OA can be expected to increase s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF,Russell AL,Seed MP

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin required for many physiological functions. The intracellular transport of vitamin A is assisted by proteins called cellular retinol-binding proteins (CRBP I/II). The absorption, storage and usage of vitamin A are regulated by a protein called lecithin:retinol acyltransferase (LRAT), ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mezaki Y,Fujimi TJ,Senoo H,Matsuura T

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solutes concentration in the aqueous humor of the eye is highest near the ciliary processes in the posterior chamber (p.c.) and lowest near the trabecular meshwork in the anterior chamber (a.c.). The high osmotic gradient across the semipermeable iris causes it to easily move forward at this location and occasionally ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mark HH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widespread use of antidepressant medication, there are no signs that the burden of depression and suicide is decreasing in the industrialised world. This is generating mounting scepticism on the effectiveness of this class of drugs as an approach for the treatment of mood disorders. These doubts are also f...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Procopio M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human endometrium is a highly regenerative tissue and contains a low number of cells which have high replicative ability and differentiation efficiency. This has been identified by many scientists. When the fresh growth of tissue and blood vessels is shed during each menstrual cycle, some cells with regenerative capab...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhang MJ,Liu B,Xia W,Sun ZY,Lu KH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This hypothesis clearly proposes the true and previously undiscovered cause of male homosexuality or bisexuality and in most cases the predictability in infancy of the development of this sexuality in adulthood. It is based on compelling new evidence which has accumulated over many years. The fetal and neonatal period...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Roper WG

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00