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abstract：:The aim was to search for periodical fluctuations in daily occurrence of gout attacks during the synodic lunar cycle. 126 gout attacks were recorded between 1972 and 1994 at known calendar dates. The synodic plexogram, displaying the number of attacks for each day of the cycle, was processed by cosinor regression. A p...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mikulecký M,Rovenský J

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:We were interested whether fluorine, at the concentrations regarded as normal, can play a role in PCOS pathogenesis. The effect was not described in PCOS. Women with PCOS were diagnosed according to Rotterdam's criteria. The average age of 40 examined women with PCOS was 26.3 ± 5.5 years, BMI-29.16 ± 0.8, WHR-0.91 ± 0...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Szczuko M,Splinter J,Zapałowska-Chwyć M,Ziętek M,Maciejewska D

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the physical properties of magnetic fluids a new technique of whole-body hyperthermia is proposed. Subdomain dextran stabilized magnetite particles injected into the blood-stream can be efficiently heated using an external high-frequency magnetic field, which allows rapid and controllable delivery of h...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Babincová M,Sourivong P,Leszczynska D,Babinec P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I hypothesize that the intermediates of the kynurenine (Kyn) pathway (KP) of tryptophan (Trp) degradation kynurenic acid (KA) and quinolinic acid (QA) play opposite roles in inflammatory diseases, with KA being antiinflammatory and QA being immunosuppressant. Darlington et al. have demonstrated a decrease in the ratio...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Badawy AA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In UK educational circles it has long been regarded as a platitude that a good scientific education at school and undergraduate level should aim to teach critical thinking and encourage students to challenge mainstream science, debate scientific issues and express their personal opinions. However, I believe that this ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Charlton BG

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple reports show the efficacious usage of ECT for catatonia in individuals with autism. There are also a few reports showing that ECT improves self-injury in people with and without autism. In this hypothesis, self-injury in autism and other developmental disorders may be an alternate sign of catatonia, and as su...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wachtel LE,Dhossche DM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly two million people suffer traumatic brain injury in the US each year. These injuries alter adversely the metabolism of myelin, a major lipid material in brain, both in people and in experimental injuries of animals. A newly discovered and severe human neuropathy from copper deficiency provides evidence that som...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Klevay LM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus Diseases-2019 (COVID-19) has caused a large global outbreak and has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). It has been proposed that COVID-19-related hyperinflammation and dysregulated immune response might play a critical role in developing a cytokine storm which usually progr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ali ZA,El-Mallakh RS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the AKR strain of mice a high incidence of spontaneous lymphoid leukemia develops before 12 months of age. Genetic, viral, and endocrine factors interact during development to produce the syndrome. Many of the deficiencies of AKR mice are associated with gene action in chromosome 17, at or near the major histocompa...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Vriend J

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed a severe threat to global health management system since it has been detected in the human body. This pandemic was prompted by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and rapidly developed into a public emergency with an alarming incr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tao H,Bai J,Zhang W,Zheng K,Guan P,Ge G,Li M,Geng D

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Growing evidences suggest a link between normal tension glaucoma (NTG) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Both of them are progressive neurodegenerative disorders. Recently researches provide a clue that optineurin may be a new common underlying risk factor involved in NTG and AD. OPTINEURIN (OPTN) gene coding for "optineu...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu YH,Tian T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Except for a few diseases of molecular mimicry such as rheumatic fever, post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis in children, and gluten-sensitive enteropathy, the cause of autoimmune diseases is unknown. Most autoimmune diseases are remitting-relapsing and the pathophysiology of either the initial attack or subsequent r...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eggers AE

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of the progressive, pubertal increases in serum gonadotropin (FSH, LH) levels coinciding with the peak incidence of simple goiters; the common alpha subunits associated with the gonadotropins, TSH and hCG; the ability of LH and hCG to bind to thyroid TSH receptors and affect thyroid function; and, the probabl...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： DiNicola AF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis remains a rare neurological disease of unknown aetiology, with a unique distribution, both geographically and historically. Rare in equatorial regions, it becomes increasingly common in higher latitudes; historically, it was first clinically recognized in the early nineteenth century. A hypothesis, ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Carlyle IP

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research from our group suggests that patients with lesions in the left inferior parietal lobule (IPL)-which is concerned with abstract numerical cognition and cross-modal association (which is consistent with its strategic location at the crossroads between the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes) have di...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jalal B,Ramachandran VS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is proposed that gastrin promotes the uptake of divalent and trivalent metal ions from the gastrointestinal lumen by catalyzing the binding of metal ions to luminal albumin and transferrin respectively. The following observations are consistent with this hypothesis: 1. Gastrin binds both divalent and trivalent meta...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Baldwin GS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a phenomenon expressed by many tumors affecting the chemotherapy efficacy, treatment decision, and the disease prognosis. Considering its great implication, non-invasive approaches are needed to identify this phenomenon in early stages of the disease. This article discusses the potential ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Elkadi OA,Abdelbasset M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether retroviral integration is a phenomenon specific to properties of the surrounding genomic region is a widely debated question. In this paper we attempt to enlight the involvement of genomic regions prone to DNA double strand breaks in such process, as well as the more general concept of genome plasticity concer...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Guinet E,Mimaud V,Rossignol P,Hameau L,Benboudjema L,Jasmin C,Tovey MG,Bélec L,Lang MC

更新日期：2003-02-01 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

abstract：:A lowered risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been reported in the Hutterite community residing mainly in southern Canada. In another anabaptist community, the Old Colony Mennonites (OCM), settled in Canada and spread to Latin America, only a large pedigree with an increased risk of autoimmune diseases, including type...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lauer K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign intracranial hypertension and communicating hydrocephalus are uncommon but important disorders that affect cerebrospinal fluid dynamics. They have clinical similarities but their management is usually different. The factors determining which of the two disorders will develop include brain compliance, the state ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Salman MS

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) Background: RNA viruses and especially coronaviruses could act inside host cells not only by building their own proteins, but also by perturbing the cell metabolism. We show the possibility of miRNA-like inhibitions by the SARS-CoV-2 concerning for example the hemoglobin and type I interferons syntheses, hence hig...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Demongeot J,Seligmann H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidepressants, including tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and serotonin-noradrenalin reuptake inhibitors, are the main biological treatment for major depression. However, not all depressed patients improve clinically despite appropriate treatment. Thus,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tsai SJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:It has been suggested that dopamine may play an important role in human evolution and adaptive behaviors. Recent studies have revealed an association between the dopamine system and social support among healthy individuals. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. In the present study, we propose a dopamine ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lin SH,Chen PS,Yeh TL,Yang YK

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular diseases, and an estimated 972 million people in the world are suffering from this problem. Indubitably, hypertension is an important worldwide public-health challenge. In recent years many efforts have been made to devise novel therapies involving new targets implic...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Li YF,Xiao CS,Hui RT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using order parameters from field theory, the paper rationalizes the statistics of myeloid and erythroid leukemias more satisfactorily than the random mutation hypothesis. Adapted to B- and plasma cell lineages, the same arguments conceptualize the statistics of related malignancies congruently to clinical findings. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Matioli GT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High doses of oestrogens in the dog and ferret cause myeloid hyperplasia in the bone marrow superseded by hypoplasia affecting all cell lines. In the peripheral blood after an initial leucocytosis, there is thrombocytopenia, anaemia and leucopenia. These effects, which are ultimately lethal, do not occur in cats, rats...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hart JE

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00