A theory of marks and mind: the effect of notational systems on hominid brain evolution and child development with an emphasis on exchanges between mothers and children.

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and oligodendrocyte degeneration and white matter damage play a critical role in the pathogenesis of AD. FGF/FGF receptor signaling have been implicated in diverse cellular processes including cell apoptosis, survival, adhesion, migration, different...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Li JS,Yao ZX

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbs and minerals are the integral parts of traditional systems of medicine in many countries. Kushta is a form of herbo-mineral preparations used in traditional systems of medicine (Unani and Ayurvedic) of Indo-Pak subcontinent. These preparations have long been used and claimed to be the most effective and potent d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Aziz N,Gilani AH,Rindh MA

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Huachansu, a Chinese medicine that comes from dried toad venom from the skin glands of Bufo bufo gargarizans Cantor or Bufo melanostictus Schneider, has been used in treatment of cancers. We conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Huachansu combined with chemotherapy for advanced gas...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Xie X,Huang X,Li J,Lv X,Huang J,Tang S,Sun Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances into the neuroscience research related to pathophysiology of schizophrenia have been impressive. While some are based on pre-existing theories and models, others have explored on a molecular level attempting to integrate the concepts of the past and present. However, given the complex multifactorial et...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yarlagadda A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is rapidly ageing. It is against this backdrop that there are increasing incidences of dementia reported worldwide, with Alzheimer's disease (AD) being the most common form of dementia in the elderly. It is estimated that AD affects almost 4 million people in the US, and costs the US economy more than 65 mil...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lim D,Flicker L,Dharamarajan A,Martins RN

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：:Our hypothesis was that testosterone therapy (TT) interacts with previously undiagnosed thrombophilia-hypofibrinolysis, leading to hospitalization for deep venous thrombosis (DVT)-pulmonary emboli (PE). We determined the prevalence of DVT-PE associated with TT 147 men hospitalized in the last 12 months for DVT-PE. Of ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Glueck CJ,Friedman J,Hafeez A,Hassan A,Wang P

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reviewed supporting a hypothesis of an anticarcinogenic effect of magnesium. Animal studies reported increased cancer in rodents maintained on magnesium deficient diets and a preventive effect for rodents fed excess levels of magnesium. Epidemiologic evidence is presented that magnesium levels in water, fo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Blondell JM

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：:A mechanism is proposed for the formation of Ebg-evolved beta galactosidase-of E. coli based on the following assumptions: 1. In the presence of lactose, certain proteins being translated bind to their m-RNA-ribosome complexes; 2. This binding interferes with the release of m-RNA from the bacterial chromosome, marking...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Erhan S

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For some patients with radiculopathy a source of nerve root compression cannot be identified despite positive electromyography (EMG) evidence. This discrepancy hampers the effective clinical management for these individuals. Although it has been well-established that tissues in the cervical spine move in a three-dimen...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jaumard NV,Udupa JK,Siegler S,Schuster JM,Hilibrand AS,Hirsch BE,Borthakur A,Winkelstein BA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of certain drugs such as antidepressants have been shown to produce a phenomenon known as time-dependent sensitization, a process in which the acute effects of the drugs sensitize and grow over time. While both preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated time-dependent sensitization, it is still ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nathan P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new prion diseases that have emerged in the last 15 years are bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD). Although initially confined to the UK, these diseases have recently emerged in other European countries. The accepted cause of the human disease is that BSE spre...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brown DR

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed drinking water standard for radium-226 (226Ra) of 5 pCi/l is evaluated according to its health basis and carcinogenic implications. Proposed health risks of 226Ra in drinking water by other leading theoreticians (Evans, Gofman-Tamplin and Peterson) are also con...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Riddiough CR,Musselman R,Calabrese EJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 exacts a disproportionate toll on both the elderly and those with diabetes; these patients are more likely to require costly intensive care, longer hospitalisation, and die from complications. Nations would thus find it extremely difficult to either lift or sustain socially, economically, and politically dama...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wee AKH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac chambers have afferent connections to the brainstem and to the spinal cord. Vagal afferents mediate depressor responses and become activated by volume expansion, increased myocardial contractility and atrial natriuretic factor. Sympathetic afferents, on the contrary, are activated by metabolic mediators, myoca...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Davila DF,Donis JH,Bellabarba G,Torres A,Casado J,Mazzei de Davila C

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pars tuberalis is a distinct subdivision of the pituitary gland but its function remains poorly understood. Suprasellar tumors in this pars tuberalis region are frequently accompanied by hyperprolactinemia. As these tumors do not immunoreact for any of the established pituitary hormones, they are classified as non...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Skinner DC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major cause of cardiac related mortality and morbidity in the developing countries due to poor diagnosis and lack of proper therapeutics. The definite reason of heart valve injury during RHD is poorly understood. Valvular endothelial cells play an important role in pathogenesis ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sarkar S,Chopra S,Rohit MK,Banerjee D,Chakraborti A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminology relating to 'psychological stress' is so confused and ambiguous that research in this field - and application of its results - must surely be hampered. Relevant words with conflicting usages and scientific definitions include 'stress' itself, 'stressor', 'strain', 'challenge', 'demand', 'threat', 'reso...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Burton RF,Hinton JW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe affective and behavioral dysregulation, labeled as severe mood dysregulation (SMD), is a widely spread phenomenon among adolescent psychiatric patients. This phenotype constitutes severe impairment across multiple settings, including various symptoms, such as non-episodic anger, mood instability, and hyperarous...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Heiler S,Legenbauer T,Bogen T,Jensch T,Holtmann M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) is one of the subgroups of schizophrenia of which little is known with regard to its optimal mechanism. Treatment response, either as full remission of symptoms or prediction by biomarker, is important in psychiatry. We have proposed a model that integrates dopaminergic and glut...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Huang LC,Lin SH,Tseng HH,Chen KC,Yang YK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available epidemiological data for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) support an infectious etiology and lead us to propose a new hypothesis. We examined older epidemiological data concerning categories of the population with increased incidence (aged people, people living in rural areas, farmers, breeders), more...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Stipa G,Taiuti R,de Scisciolo G,Arnetoli G,Tredici MR,Biondi N,Barsanti L,Lolli F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of the tumour induces important metabolic changes in the cancer patient which are not merely due to the fact that the tumour acts as a parasite, thus depleting the host of nutrients, but that are mainly the result of both tumoral and humoral mediators. The new metabolic status of the cancer patient may le...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Argilés JM,López-Soriano FJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papers from a generation ago suggested that phenothiazines--in particular trifluorperazine (Stelazine) a medicinal approved by the FDA and still commonly used for schizophrenia--downregulate the epidermal growth factor receptor. As numerous cancers--e.g., colon cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kast RE,Altschuler EL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are different theories and hypotheses related to the aetiology of depression. The interaction between brain 5-HT level and the activity of its autoreceptors plays a role in mood changes and depression. In major depression, activation of the inflammatory response system (IRS) and, increased concentrations of proi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Myint AM,Kim YK

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that a placebo in a standard, randomized, controlled trial (RCT), being an inert substance, cannot itself produce any effects. Yet, the magnitude of the placebo effect has increased remarkably in the last three decades. We propose that macroscopic information entanglement potentially explains ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Manek NJ,Tiller WA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Many studies have investigated the cause for the development of AF, however, the question remains unanswered. METHODS:A comparison of hydrodynamics between AF and sinus rhythm was performed. RESULTS:I proposed the hypothesis that atrial fibril...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tilman V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously presented a new Systemic Evolutionary Theory of Cancer (SETOC) based on the failure of proper endosymbiosis in eukaryotic cells. Here, we propose that the progressive uncoupling of two endosymbiotic subsystems (information and energy) inside the cell, as a consequence of long-term injuries, gives ri...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mazzocca A,Ferraro G,Misciagna G,Fais S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00