Administration of human umbilical cord blood to low birth weight infants may prevent the subsequent development of type 2 diabetes.

abstract：:Despite extensive research, a link between the assumed mechanisms of death and known risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has not yet been established. Modifiable risk factors such as prone sleeping position, nicotine exposure and thermal stress and non-avoidable risk factors like male gender and some ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Flaig C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biology of natural selection is an enduring mystery, as is the nature of Charles Darwin's chronic illness. Of the theories advanced to explain the latter, Oedipal conflicts and Chagas' disease are preeminent. Hypomania, however, propelled Darwin to the pinnacle of scientific achievement and good health, the depres...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lieb J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic, tertiary Lyme disease, a vector-borne infection most accurately designated neuroborreliosis, is often misdiagnosed. Infectors of the human brain, Lyme borrelial spirochetes are neurotropic, similar to the spirochetes of syphilis. Symptoms of either disease may be stable and persistent, transient and inconsist...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sherr VT

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was hypothesized decades ago that reduced levels of brain monoamines such as serotonin or norepinephrine form, at least in part, a pathophysiological basis for major depression. Consistent with this hypothesis, a conventional strategy used, with varying success, to treat major depression involves administering anti...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Fitzgerald PJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel coronavirus (NCoV-19), also known as SARS CoV-2, is a pathogen causing an emerging infection that rapidly increases in incidence and geographic range, is associated with the ever-increasing morbidity and mortality rates, and shows sever economic impact worldwide. The WHO declares the NCoV-19 infection disease (C...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mani Mishra P,Uversky VN,Nandi CK

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has gained prominence since 1988 and a substantial amount of research has been done in this domain. However, it is still regarded as a controversial condition. Moreover, most of the symptoms of CFS itself are non-specific, occurring in many illnesses; some of the symptoms are also common...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Van Hoof E,Cluydts R,De Meirleir K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulointerstitial fibrosis is a final common pathway to the eventual structural desolation of kidneys. However, the mechanism involved in this phenomenon is still poorly understood, and current therapies are ineffective or only marginally effective. Mast cell has a variety of physiological and pathological functions ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Li Y,Liu FY,Peng YM,Li J,Chen J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that increased hepatic gluconeogenesis is the predominant contributor to fasting hyperglycemia - the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Although it has been known for a long time that over-supply of fat is able to stimulate gluconeogenesis both in-vitro and in-vivo, neither the leading substrate no...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Song S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy type 1 is a lifelong sleep disorder characterized by the loss of hypocretin-producing neurons in the brain. Environmental agents, including influenza, neurotoxic metals, and combustion smoke, have been implicated in the pathogenesis, especially in carriers of the human leukocyte antigen class II DQB1*06:02 ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mori I

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines, decrease in endothelial nitric oxide (eNO) and adiponectin levels and an alteration in hypothalamic peptides and gastrointestinal hormones such as incretins and cholecystokinin that regulate satiety, hunger, and food intake occur in metabolic syndrome. Thus, metabolic syndrom...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Das UN

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies reveal that chronic alcoholics exhibiting liver disease are generally malnourished. Experimental studies unequivocally demonstrate that incidence of malnutrition cannot be avoided in animals fed liquid diets containing high concentrations of alcohol. Furthermore, ingestion of additional amounts...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sankaran H,Larkin EC,Rao GA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The expression of consciousness and the site of memory storage within the brain are unknown despite over a century of intense empirical scrutiny. Recent anatomical studies show that human protoplasmic astrocytes form innumerable uniform polyhedral tessellating domains that are arranged three-dimensionally. T...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Robertson JM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a powerful clinical tool to identify embryos with or at risk of specific genetic diseases before implantation in utero after in vitro fertilization (IVF). PGD is performed on embryo biopsies that are obtained by aspiration of one or two cells from pre-implantation embryos at...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Assou S,Aït-Ahmed O,El Messaoudi S,Thierry AR,Hamamah S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells are a small population of tumor cells that have many malignant features such as chemotherapy resistance, radiotherapy resistance, tumorigenicity and are responsible for tumor progression, disease recurrence and metastasis. Therefore, insight into the regulation of the biology of cancer stem cells is ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lin S,Fu S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In endemic pemphigus foliaceus (EPF) or "fogo selvagem" the epidemiological evidence shows that all the described outbreaks occur on the banks of rivers where there is mercury contamination from alluvium gold mining and deforestation. Pathophysiological evidence shows a similarity to pemphigus induced by sulphydryl (S...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Robledo MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Space adaptation syndrome (SAS) incapacitates about 50% of the astronauts with symptoms of headache, malaise, vomiting, vertigo, etc. A hypothesis that SAS is caused by elevated intracranial pressure secondary to the cephalad fluid shift in zero G is proposed. A mechanism of how the cephalad fluid shift could cause el...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jennings T

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intractable epilepsy has always posed a challenge to management; conventional, surgical and alternative techniques available so far (e.g., vagal nerve stimulation, i.e. VNS). The author has attempted to search for a novel alternative (drug-regime) approach to its management to minimise any invasive technique or surger...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jaseja H

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following observation of fatigue syndromes in people who have been occupationally exposed to pesticides and insecticides which exert their toxicity through the GABAa receptor, we have formulated the hypothesis that fatigue syndromes in general may be secondary to altered sensitivity of the GABAa receptor. We discuss t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Corrigan FM,MacDonald S,Brown A,Armstrong K,Armstrong EM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levator ani muscles in women are overloaded by constant supporting abdominal contents, and counteracting rises of abdominal pressure at the level of the urethra. The excessive load leads to a decrease in their type II fibers. This results in stress urinary incontinence due to loss of the fibers responsible for add...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jóźwik M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite important advances in understanding its pathophysiology, therapy for septic shock remains largely symptomatic and supportive. Aiming to elevate the systemic arterial blood pressure by using vasoconstrictor manoeuvers are preferred without paying much attention to the ischaemia produced at the peripheral tissue...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Iskit AB,Guc MO

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic individuals frequently suffer from skin pathologies, especially in their feet. Co-existing peripheral vascular disease and neuropathy exacerbate the capacity of these individuals to cope with infections, minor cuts and wounds, often leading to hard to treat and chronic ulcers. Copper has potent anti-fungal an...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Borkow G,Zatcoff RC,Gabbay J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia is caused by virus injury to the calcium channels leading to larger quantities than usual of calcium ions entering the striated muscle cells. Should this be true, then treatment with a calcium antagonist (CA) may possibly be of value. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lund-Olesen LH,Lund-Olesen K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial dysfunction due to reduced bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO) is an early step in the course of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). NO is synthesized from L-arginine via the action of NO synthase (NOS), which is known to be blocked by endogenous L-arginine analogues such as asymmetric dimethyla...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yamagishi S,Ueda S,Okuda S

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Cameron and Pauling have reported large survival increases in terminal cancer patients treated with Vitamin C. Their trials, which have been criticised because not based on random, double-blind principles, are reviewed here using a broad inductive method that relies on diverse data of varying quality. Conclusions are ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jaffey M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High level contamination by natural and industrial sources of the alkali earth metal, barium (Ba) has been identified in the ecosystems/workplaces that are associated with high incidence clustering of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases such as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TS...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Purdey M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is responsible for the death of 10,000 infants annually in the U.S.A. The cause of these deaths is not known; all SIDS infants studied died during sleep in a silent fashion and there are no specific lesions observable post mortem. It may be of significance, however, that nearly ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reid GM

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidental pituitary adenoma is the common finding during brain imaging. According to multistep model of pituitary tumourigenesis genetic alterations provide the initiating event that transforms cells while hormones play a role in promoting cell proliferation. Development of pituitary adenoma in a case of excessive hy...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kastelan D,Korsic M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The materno-fetal relationship is governed by critical levels of progesterone (P) and prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha). The 'see-saw' in concentration of these molecules maintain and terminate pregnancy in placental mammals. Apart from the enhancement or suppression of uterine contractility by PGF2 alpha and P resp...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pearson RD

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From biographical data sources on ranking scientists, I was able to identify 35 centenarians. Among these, only one (Michel Chevereul from France) lived before the 20th century. Since the remaining 34 individuals became centenarians only from 1965, I propose that centenarian scientists are an unusual cluster, first fo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sri Kantha S

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00