Developing biochemical profiles for various psychiatric diseases.

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：: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：:Acid hydrolysis of components from the diet in the stomach require the presence of an acid and a hydrolysing agent. The acid involved is hydrochloric acid. The present mechanism of hydrochloric acid production in the stomach is demonstrated to be incompatible with measured intracellular or intercellular concentrations...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Robertson DS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This hypothesis named Salerian Addictive Potential (SAP) suggests that the addictive potency of any substance may be calculated with an algebraic equation of A=E/T(max)xt(1/2), where A is the addictive potency, E represents the euphoric potency, T(max) is the time to reach peak plasma concentration, and t(1/2) is the ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Salerian AJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Howard Gardner identified five different kinds of creative activity among eminent creators, namely, solving a well-defined problem, putting forth a general conceptual scheme, creating a product that embodies ideas, stylized innovation of an art form, and a 'high-stakes' performance in the socio-political arena. In thi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kantha SS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation and development of atherosclerosis has largely been attributed to irregular shear stress patterns and values, in the current literature. Abnormalities such as low shear stress, reversing and oscillatory shear force patterns, as well as temporal variations of shear stress are the most cited factors. However,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Anssari-Benam A,Korakianitis T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune panels of many autism-spectrum children reveal signs of atypical infections and shifted cell counts. In conjunction with trait-related cerebral hypometabolism and hypoperfusion, these findings suggest a hypothesis: Several autism-spectrum subgroups derive from intra-monocyte pathogens such as measles virus, cyt...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Binstock T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the principles of the altered homeostatic theory, a case will be made that the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events from pharmaceuticals as COX-2 inhibitors (coxibs) and sympatho-mimetic drugs can be reduced significantly by using standard pharmaceutical and lifestyle preventative measures as statins, exercise,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hellstrom HR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present no good method of assisting the right ventricle of the heart exists. This paper presents a new and effective approach to assisting the right ventricle of the heart which can be utilized independently or during cardiac surgery. Through implementation of this method, and timed inflation and deflation of sever...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gordon RT,Gordon D

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroepidemiological, clinical and molecular findings suggest that the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus human immunodeficiency virus-1 was introduced into the human species at the time (late 1950s) and in the geographic area (Zaire) in which millions of Africans were vaccinated with attenuated poliomyelitis vi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reinhardt V,Roberts A

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：: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：:Positive cancer patient outcomes, including increased time to recurrent events, have been associated with increased counts and function of natural killer (NK) cells. NK cell counts and function are elevated following acute exercise, and the generally accepted mechanism of increased recruitment suggests that binding of...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Evans W

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper hypothesizes that the top positions in academic medicine are generally occupied by less talented and skilled physicians who find more time to spare for administrative activities as compared to physicians who are successful in their research projects or enjoy their skills as practicing clinicians. A p...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sonnenberg A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yawning continues to pose as a scientist's conundrum. Evidence is presented of yawning and contagious yawning in a number of different neurological disorders. Explanations are discussed in the context of disparate neurological disorders together with proposals for how theses findings may be linked. Thus, greater under...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Thompson SB

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many published studies about the epigenetic effects of the prenatal and infant periods on health outcomes. However, there is very little knowledge regarding the effects of the intrapartum period (labor and birth) on health and epigenetic remodeling. Although the intrapartum period is relatively short compare...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dahlen HG,Kennedy HP,Anderson CM,Bell AF,Clark A,Foureur M,Ohm JE,Shearman AM,Taylor JY,Wright ML,Downe S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The science of osteoimmunology, a relatively new field of research, reveals the important interactions between the immune system and skeletal system. Interactions occur between prostaglandin metabolism, inflammatory proteins and bone metabolism. Systemic as well as local sources of inflammation appear to be actively i...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： van Esch RW,Kool MM,van As S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Except for immunization programs our warfare with bacteria has always been a frontal assault with antibiotics. In this warfare we win battles, but with every new battle the enemy gets stronger. We need other options. Recent experience suggests two alternatives. First, public health measures designed to control the spr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jones AH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:T helper (Th) lymphocytes have been classified into distinct subsets, Th1 and Th2 on the basis of the cytokines they produce. According to the cross-regulatory properties of Th1 and Th2 cells, one would assume that to be affected by a Th1 type disease increases susceptibility to a Th1 type disease and inhibi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Shahabi S,Hassan ZM,Jazani NH,Ebtekar M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, researchers are still debating the effect of blue light on the eyes.Studies have shown thatwhile blue lighthelpsto maintain normal biological rhythms,excessive blue light radiation mayinduce fundus lesions. The preliminary survey shows that the incidence of vitreous floaters is high among digital device us...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chen JT,Wu HJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a common neuropsychiatric complication of liver disease affecting about 20-30% patients with cirrhosis. HE may only affect quality of life (e.g. impairments in attention; coordination; driving ability), but in some patients this progresses to coma and death; defining mortality in those w...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jalan R,Wright G,Davies NA,Hodges SJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is defined as the process of ''programmed cell death'' (PCD), during which many cells simultaneously die from within along a very orderly pattern. PCD is as intrinsic for cells as mitosis and is involved in both degenerative and developmental processes of organs and organisms. The pattern of apoptotic cell d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bongaerts GP

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Insulin resistance (IR) is a common denominator of metabolic and hemodynamic disorders simultaneously present in one person and responsible for elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular incidents. According to the latest research, IR is present in 25-45% of the general population. Therefore...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Blaslov K,Kruljac I,Mirošević G,Kirigin Biloš LS,Vrkljan M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In orthognathic surgery, many serious medical disputes and postsurgical dissatisfactions are not caused by the doctors' reasons, but due to the patients' psychological problems. These adverse events obsess not only surgeons, but also patients to a great extent. An effective method is expected to screen patients for or...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yu D,Fang B,Wang F,Wang X,Zhang W,Dai J,Shen SG

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:There have been various comments on the complexity of cell signaling and the need for simplification. Recently, new mechanics was proposed by Hlavacek and Faeder as a means of achieving this goal. Some of the important tenets include: (1) phosphorylation of nearby phosphorylation sites is likely to be cooperative and ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kovacic P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Damaged DNA can lead to aneuploidy and/or chromosomal instability, which is believed to be major contributor to tumor progression. Genotoxic and oncogenic stresses-induced DNA damage activate the tumor suppressor pathways initiate DNA damage response (DDR). One of the cellular fates in response to DDR is permanent gro...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Erol A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00