The changing scene in Hashimoto's disease: a review.

abstract：:Can consciousness be understood as the ongoing active creation of information (of meaning)? 'Emergence', the central concept in this hypothesis, plays an essentially different role in it than in theories previously proposed. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Atkin A

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unacceptably high incidence of preterm labour is seen in the black and coloured communities of South Africa. This hypothesis proposes that sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase activity plays an important role in preterm labour. The impaired activity of the sodium pump leads to increased cytosolic calcium level...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Du Toit PJ,Theron JJ,Grobler AS,Steinmann CM,Van Papendorp DH

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experiments show that there is a cell to cell communication by light in different cell types. This article describes theoretical mechanisms and subcellular structures that could be involved in this phenomenon. Special consideration is given to the nervous system, since it would have excellent conditions for su...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Grass F,Klima H,Kasper S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We argue that our common diseases should not necessarily be taken as a sign of physiological error. Regulatory networks developed by evolutionary forces to support reproductive fitness happen to include disease as a side-effect. For example, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases are secondary to a strong defence agains...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bredberg A,Lavasani S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently demonstrated that amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) is catabolized primarily by a neutral endopeptidase, neprilysin, in the brain and that a neuropeptide, somatostatin (SST), regulates brain Abeta level via modulation of neprilysin activity. Because SST expression in the brain declines upon aging in various mam...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hama E,Saido TC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article introduces the hypothesis that aquaporin 1 of intramuscular capillary endothelial cells may enhance the capability of the skeletal myofiber regeneration. Evidence for the hypothesis is based on the indication obtained from our previous muscle xenograft study into athymic nude mice, and the indications prop...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wakayama Y

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological findings on the relation between foods and colon cancer are inconsistent. Many, but far from all, found positive associations for meat and fat and negative ones for vegetables and fruits. Explanations so far have focused on direct biochemical conversions in the colon or transit time, but they remain un...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holmqvist OH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IHH or pseudotumor cerebri) is an uncommon but important cause of headache, characterized by raised intracranial pressure (ICP) in the absence of infection and intracranial pathology on neuroimaging. Lumbar puncture (LP) is usually contra-indicated in situations where the ICP is s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Salman M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have previously assumed that stem tumour cells are 'para-embryonal cells' (PECs) poor or missing in major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens. PECs might induce adjoining differentiated hyperplastic cells to also express tumoral phenotype and properties, thus transforming them into 'differentiated para-embryon...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Manzo G

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All kinds of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the mechanism of tumorigenesis. Up until now, we have not had any generally acknowledged model that helps us understand the process. In this paper, I propose a dynamic model of how tumor cells escape the supervision of the immune system; I also examine the possibil...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cai DW

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major risk-factor for the development of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Circulating molecules associated with obesity, such as saturated fatty acids and cholesterol crystals, stimulate the innate immune system to incite a chronic inflammatory state. Studies in mouse model...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Demidowich AP,Davis AI,Dedhia N,Yanovski JA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have suggested that the brain renin angiotensin system (RAS) regulates cerebral flow, autonomic and hormonal systems, stress, innate immune response and behavior, being implicated in several brain disorders such as major depression, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. The angiotensin II receptor subtype 1 (AT...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： de Góis Queiroz AI,Medeiros CD,Ribeiro BM,de Lucena DF,Macêdo DS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For some considerable time, there has been a growing awareness that defective essential fatty acid metabolism plays a causal role in the pathogenesis of both schizophrenia and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) but the influence of defective essential fatty acid metabolism in the pathogenesis of rheumatoi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holden RJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comorbidity of eating disorders and reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome in the same patients raises the possibility of a common pathway for both conditions. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome may be manifesting itself in those individuals who have sympathetic overdrive. Microtrauma, often induced by compulsiv...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Silber TJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DSM is not brain-related and is thus unable to relate clinical assessments to putative brain disturbances. 'Clinical brain profiling' (CBP) involves the rearrangement of clinical findings to assess the relevant disturbances in brain dynamics. CBP has three major pathological dimensions, (1) disorders of basic brai...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Peled A

更新日期：2009-08-01 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 essential trace element selenium is known to be capable of reducing the toxicity of heavy metals like cadmium(II), mercury(II) and silver(I). One mechanism by which this occurs is through the formation of an inert metal selenide like silver selenide. It is not clear why selenide should react in the body preferenti...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nuttall KL

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophthalmitis following pars-plana procedures such as a vitrectomy vitreo-retinal procedures has been infrequently reported in literature. The cited incidence is about 0.1% to 0.2%. In the 8 cases of endophthalmitis that have been reported in literature, the prognosis has been indicated as very poor due to a delay i...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Venkatesh P,Verma L,Tewari H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plantar fasciitis has been and remains one of the most common pathologic conditions of the lower extremity. Patients diagnosed with plantar fasciitis are treated conservatively with various degrees of success. This article presents a review of the literature pertaining to treatment of plantar fasciitis as well as intr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dmitri Luke BS

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary hyperparathyroidism is one of the most common causes of hypercalcemia. Most cases result from sporadic benign monoclonal adenomas or hyperplasia. Increased body weight is consistently present in cohorts of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. It has been shown that fat mass is the major determinant of se...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cheng SP,Doherty GM,Chang YC,Liu CL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis proposed is that restoration of functional capacity of denervated diaphragm may be achieved by reinervating it with vagus nerve. Following trauma, carcinomatose infiltration, and/or large thoracic surgery and neck surgery, phrenic nerve is frequently injured. Reinervation even in the most favourable con...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pavlovic D,Wendt M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoplastic pineal glands and decreased melatonin levels are found in sudden infant death syndrome. Excess oxygen radical production and inadequate radical quenching is suggested to cause oxidative stress in the brain of sudden infant death syndrome victims. Loss of intraventricular cerebrospinal fluid melatonin could...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Maurizi CP

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis proposed in this article is that a haemodynamic mechanism may cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The hypothesis is synthesized from three separate streams of medical research: (1) multiple sclerosis (MS) research; (2) ALS research; (3) atherosclerosis research. Each research stream was reviewed ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Arhart RW

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptom spectra of several 'popular press' diagnoses are examined and compared to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IIIR criteria for somatization disorder, depression, and generalized anxiety disorder. While there is much overlap, there are clear distinctions, and these psychiatric terms do no...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Elks ML

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What causes cancer? To date, this question is left with no answer. The scientific community keeps defining cancer as a proliferation of cells in an uncontrolled and uncontrollable manner. The hypothesis developed here through an understanding of the cancer cell's behaviour led to its re-definition, providing answers t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Majerus MA

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Secretion of ovarian hormones directly into the peritoneal cavity has been repeatedly demonstrated for 25 years, but the consequences of this pathway of secretion have not been fully considered. Circumstantial evidence suggests the following hypotheses: (1) Hormones enter the endometrial cavity through the tubes and i...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Foster EA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The angiotensin-converting enzyme 2(ACE-2) receptors with approx. 0.8% congestion in conjunctival surface, leads to increase susceptibility of Covid-19 transmission through ocular surface. It has been observed that prophylactic measures such as goggle or face shield are unable to offer complete protection against ocul...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sahu DK,Pradhan D,Naik PK,Kar B,Ghosh G,Rath G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many theories try to explain the existence and function of paranasal sinuses. This paper is an attempt to correlate process of paranasal sinus development in human with bone pneumatization processes in animals. It is here proposed that this mechanism starts in utero and continues after birth. During endochondral devel...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kurbel S,Radić R,Kristek B,Ivezić Z,Selthofer R,Kotromanović Z

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dependence on benzodiazepines (BZDs) or Z-drugs (zolpidem, zopicline and zaleplon) is a common clinical phenomenon. Traditional detoxification of BZDs dependence includes tapering used dose gradually and using equivalent doses of long-acting BZDs as substitutes. This kind of regimen tends to take a long time (up to 4w...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lin SK

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00