Hyperhomocysteinemia may be a resistance factor in tocolytic treatment with beta mimetics.

abstract：:It is hypothesized that Alzheimer's disease is a human phylogenetic disease which has a common multifactorial pathogenesis in sporadic and familial cases and in Down syndrome, related to a genomic character function G(x). Increments in G(x) accompanied the increased gene expression that sustained brain growth and diff...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rapoport SI

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental caries, a bacterial process that results in the acidic destruction of tooth structure, has historically been managed by the mechanical excavation of diseased tooth structure and then restoration with a synthetic material. The mechanical excavation of the infected site is most commonly achieved by a dental handp...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Quock RL,Patel SA,Falcao FA,Barros JA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of more important physical, chemical and biological properties of the nitric oxide (NO) and free stable nitroxyl radicals (nitroxides) on the base of their structural similarity is made in the article. The active moiety in the nitroxide molecule represents a sterically hindered nitric oxide. The mechanism...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Raikov ZD,Raikova ET,Atanasov AT

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism is a major and world-wide health problem. A characteristic pattern of congenital defects, known as the fetal alcohol syndrome, has been detected in the offspring of mothers who are chronic alcoholics. The mechanism underlying the teratogenic effects of ethanol is not known. An important hypothesis is that e...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Seyoum GG,Persaud TV

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:The Davson-Danielli model of the cell membrane accounted for nearly all the space within it by suggesting that it was composed of structural proteins and lipids; this would leave virtually no space for the large number of enzymes, carriers, antigens, antibodies, and receptors for hormones, transmitters, drugs and toxi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hillman H

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is the second cause of death worldwide, but current therapies are often insufficient or linked with toxicity. Initial evidence in scientific literature seems to support the role of non-pharmacological strategies, including hypoglycemia, in cancer treatment. The biological rationale for hypoglycemia-based treatm...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Baiardo Redaelli M,Zangrillo A,Gregorc V,Ciceri F,Dagna L,Tshomba Y,Navalesi P,Landoni G

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:In this review, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is identified as the uniting principle linking the pathogenesis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and carcinoma. Elevated TNF-alpha initially increases, and then inhibits, the activity of a number of ke...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holden RJ,Pakula IS,Mooney PA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of anti-tumour drug strongly depends on its dose. Higher drug doses and exposure times usually result in better treatment. It is why the implementation of high-dose treatment is always attractive. However, most of the drug delivery techniques meet essential limitations. In isolated regional perfusion a ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rukhlenko OS,Guria GT,Vorobiev AI

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper discusses certain dynamic processes leading to meiotic (haploid) partition of chromatids via the chiasmatic mode in mammalian spermatic cells. The achiasmatic case is also reviewed briefly and only in the context of homologs with centromeric braids arrayed in the Para configuration. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Matioli GT

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone grafting uses a wide range of materials derived mainly from exogenous sources. Autogenous teeth are often used fresh or fixed with alcohol for later use. Proposed here is a method of using cryogenically preserved autogenous extracted teeth, which could be macerated after thawing. This method avoids the possibilit...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Touyz LZ,Afrashtehfar KI

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Styrene is one of the most important plastic monomers worldwide. Styrene-7,8-oxide (SO), the major in-vivo metabolite of styrene, is classified as probably carcinogenic to humans and carcinogenic in rodents. Biological monitoring of exposure to styrene is usually carried out by determination of mandelic acid and pheny...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Marczynski B,Peel M,Baur X

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:The 2013 American Heart Association Blood Cholesterol Guidelines increased the number of patients recommended for statin therapy in the United States to 56million. Two common statin side effects are muscle pain, referred to as "statin-associated muscle symptoms", and increased risk for new onset type-2-diabetes mellit...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Carris NW,Tipparaju SM,Magness DJ,Chapalamadugu KC,Magness RR

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans vary in the gene that encodes for Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex (VKORC1). Recent research has documented the protective effect of Vitamin K on neural cells and its role in maintaining normal neural development. Of interest, specific neural effects of Vitamin K overlap with key brain development aberration...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： DeSoto MC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time of re-evaluation of the role of human immunodeficiency viruses in the pathogenesis of acquired immune deficiency syndrome has now come, now that methods are available for the direct detection of human immunodeficiency viruses and for the detection of cellular anti-human immunodeficiency virus immune reactions...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hässig A,Wen-Xi L,Stampfli K

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：: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：:Abnormal fluctuations of acetylcholine and serotonin might cause, or be correlated with, a variety of symptoms. This communication cites evidence which suggests that fluctuations of serotonin might have a causative role in migraine, mania, and depression and that fluctuations of acetylcholine might have a causative ro...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brown DW

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The malignant cell, in vivo, metabolizes and respires anaerobically. For a good many years scientists have been aware of anaerobia being present in malignant growths. The prevailing opinion is that the malignant cell is able to remain viable in an anaerobic medium. This assumption is incorrect and is actually misleadi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： White MW

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis significantly decreases survival in hemodialysed patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Periodontitis-related microorganisms spreading into the bloodstream are thought to impair blood rheological parameters - for example, increasing whole blood viscosity, aggregating blood elements, and decreasing...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sedý J,Horká E,Foltán R,Spacková J,Dusková J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF-I acts on vascular endothelium to activate nitric oxide synthase, thereby promoting vascular health; there is reason to believe that this protection is especially crucial to the cerebral vasculature, helping to ward off thrombotic strokes. IGF-I may also promote the structural integrity of cerebral arteries, there...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inotropic treatment remains the cornerstone for cardiogenic shock, an emergency that requires immediate resuscitative therapy before shock irreversibly damages vital organs. Although the sympathomimetic drug dobutamine is the most widely-used inotropic drug worldwide, it has several side effects including sinus tachyc...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Roubille F,Lattuca B,Busseuil D,Leclercq F,Davy JM,Rhéaume E,Tardif JC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic leakage is a lethal postoperative complication to the patients after duodenopancreatectomy for carcinoma of head of pancreas. However, we found that the patients who survived this lethal postoperative complication could potentially acquire a longer survival time comparing with those without postoperativ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu H,Liu M,Yuan T,Tang C,Chen P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events occur in the lives of millions of individuals each year. Such events, or "stressors", are experiences that threaten personal well-being, and include traumatic events such as motor vehicle collision, infectious illness, and situations such as military deployment. While most individuals recover from suc...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McLean SA,Clauw DJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:About 25-50% of children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience sleep problems. An appropriate assessment and treatment of such problems might improve the quality of life in such patients and reduce both the severity of ADHD and the impairment it causes. According to data in th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Miano S,Parisi P,Villa MP

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations which show that urine output can vary with changes in the contour of the pulse cure, that it can even increase while the mean blood pressure falls during counterpulsation, that the well known hypertensive effect of a renal artery stenosis can also be produced by an aneurysm of the renal artery, cannot be ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gatzek WJ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the nature of wellness, stress, netting and the radical gas nitric oxide (NO). The multi-complex role of NO resulted in its discoverers receiving a Nobel award, its presence everywhere and volatility makes it a suitable candidate to be a main signal in an instantaneous communication network. Such network, with the ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ralt D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00