Induction of a local pseudo-pregnancy for the treatment of endometriosis.

abstract：:A new hypothesis is presented to explain some aspects of human smoking behaviour. While acknowledging the importance of the nicotine self-titration phenomenon, changes in puffing intensity during the smoking of a single cigarette are related not to the control of nicotine uptake but to the modification of cigarette sm...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chamberlain AT,Higenbottam TW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about the etiology of pressure sores has been contradictory and is inconsistent with the idea that pressure sore formation is due extensively to depriving a tissue region of blood. Based on these observations and on studies done in the cooperating laboratories, an hypothesis has been formulated that integr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Krouskop TA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of adult and childhood obesity are increasing. Most of the human newborn's body fat accumulates in the last half of intrauterine life. Fat in the fetus was thought to be mostly synthesized from glucose, but now it is commonly accepted that the bulk of it is the product of placental transfer of maternal ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Szabo AJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early postnatal period, intraventricular hemorrhage may develop in infants with extremely low birth weights due to hemodynamic instability. One of the most significant factors in intraventricular hemorrhage development is fluctuations in the cerebral blood flow due to left-to-right shunting as a result of paten...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tekgündüz KŞ,Tekgündüz SE

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Meditation is a complex mental process involving changes in cognition, sensory perception, affect, hormones, and autonomic activity. Meditation has also become widely used in psychological and medical practices for stress management as well as a variety of physical and mental disorders. However, until now, there has b...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Newberg AB,Iversen J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked dominant postnatal severe and disabling neurodevelopmental disorder which is the second most common cause for genetic mental retardation in girls and the first pervasive disorder with a known genetic basis. The syndrome is primarily caused by mutations in the Methyl CpG binding prote...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ben-Zeev B,Aharoni R,Nissenkorn A,Arnon R

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstable (CAG)n trinucleotide repeat microsatellites are hypothesized to cause schizophrenia. The (CAG)n microsatellite of dominant spinal cerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a candidate schizophrenia gene. Autism results from expansions of (CGG)n and (GAA)n trinucleotide repeat stretches at fragile X syndrome (FRAXA),...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Fischer KM

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rigid gas permeable contact lens (RGPCL) is an ideal choice to improve the corrective vision of patients with a high degree of refractive error, keratoconus and corneal transplantation. However, RGPCL fitting is not an easy work for those patients with extremely irregular corneal surface. Technicians or doctors of...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhao F,Zhao G,Weijie F,Chen L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing dissatisfaction regarding the available diagnostic systems for psychiatric disorders (DSM, ICD). Psychiatrists acknowledge that though mental disease reflects brain disorders, the descriptive and symptom based nature of psychiatric diagnosis bears no relation to brain functions. According to Helmut's ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Peled A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient attention has been given to reports in the literature describing patients with symptomatic migraine who, in addition to, or instead of, the well-recognized zones of hypofusion, have zones of hyperperfusion, which can be interpreted as hypermetabolism due to neuronal activation. A new neural theory of migr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eggers AE

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host cholesterol is widely getting recognized as an important factor in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis in multiple ways. Therefore it is logically expected that cholesterol reduction by statins is going to have a positive outcome in the context of tuberculosis management. But at the present moment statin therapy in ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Banerjee D,Bhattacharyya R

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:The physical interaction between the red blood cells and colloidal silica leads to hemolysis. We propose that the nature of the red-cell elimination as the result of this interaction is not random. As the negatively charged silica particles at the physiological conditions electrostatically react with the positive site...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gerashchenko BI,Gerashchenko II,Pantazis CG

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is one of the most aggressive cancers which has very low response rate and survival rate. Melanoma cells are known to be inherently resistant to the chemotherapy which results in poor outcomes and even failure of the therapy. For this reason, a better understanding of underlying mechanism of melanoma pathogen...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mishra H,Mishra PK,Ekielski A,Iqbal Z,Jaggi M,Talegaonkar S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encouraging results have been obtained with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, local control rates decrease in larger volume disease. Several studies have found a correlation between T stage or tumor volume and local progression-free survival. In man...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nieder C,Andratschke N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic literatures suggest that temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) are more prevalent in women than in men. It is affecting approximately 7-15% of the adult population in North America, and 80% of patients treated for TMD are women. The severity of symptoms is also related to the age of the patients. The g...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wang J,Chao Y,Wan Q,Zhu Z

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:At the end of 2019, an emerging outbreak caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that first reported from Wuhan, China. The first manifestations of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 was flu-like symptoms, while other type of manifestations, especially gastrointestinal manifestations were...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nejadghaderi SA,Nazemalhosseini-Mojarad E,Asadzadeh Aghdaei H

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (I/RI) is the principal cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetic patients undergoing cardiac surgery. However, there is no specific measure available to protect diabetic hearts in this clinical setting. Our clinical studies showed that adenosine pre-treatment or post-treatmen...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yang Y,Duan W,Zhou J,Yan J,Liu J,Zhang J,Jin Z,Yi D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This thesis explores the activation of chemicals in metabolic systems from the viewpoint that this activation is under the control of elements of the space-sea in which the chemicals are immersed. Themselves inert, the chemicals are theorised to exploit a force or action issuing from space (fluctuation) and characteri...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reid BL,Bourke C

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning disability, attentional disorder and childhood major depression are frequent diagnoses in children with behavioral disturbances and impaired school performance. All three disorders are associated with right cerebral hemisphere dysfunction. Anatomical disturbance of right hemisphere function results in learnin...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brumback RA,Staton RD

更新日期：1982-05-01 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：:Human immunodeficiency virus may regulate its replication by stimulating the synthesis of interleukin-1. Interleukin-1, in turn, has the ability to stimulate the human immunodeficiency virus enhancer region. The human genes responsible for interleukin-1 and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist synthesis are located on th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Corley PA

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The favourable effects of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)- and doco-sahexaenoic acid (DHA)-rich diets (marine fish, fish oil) on several risk factors for cardiovascular disease are well established. The present survey describes possible new indications for diets supplemented with long-chain n-3 fatty acids. During a stand...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Singer P,Richter-Heinrich E

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular calcification (CVC) associated with conditions such as ageing, diabetes or renal impairment, results from the deposition of hydroxyapatite in the endothelium or media of blood vessels. Key medical management options are directed towards controlling plasma calcium and phosphate concentrations (e.g. parat...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Joubert P,Ketteler M,Salcedo C,Perello J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is caused by a combination of factors, genetic, epigenetics and environmental. Among the latter, environmental pollutants absorbed by contact, inhalation, or ingestion are major proven or suspected culprits. Depleted uranium (DU) is one of them directly pertinent to the military and civilians working in militar...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cappello F,Macario AJL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00