Anorexia nervosa: search for biological relevance.

abstract：:For a virus to survive and replicate in an organism, it must employ strategies to evade and misdirect the host's immune response. There is compelling evidence that the primary immunoevasive strategy utilized by the SARS virus, like influenza, is to inhibit its host's corticosteroid stress response. This is accomplishe...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wheatland R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consistent accumulation of experimental evidence, most of it published long ago, clearly shows that a constant consequence of the immune response elicited by the Koch bacillus is that the individual becomes susceptible to be injured or killed by the tuberculous antigen, which is totally innocuous to the virgin subje...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rivarola AJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cancer cell appears to contain two non phosphorylating glycolytic pathways in addition to phosphorylating glycolysis and the aerobic citric acid and phosphogluconate cycles. It is hypothesised that these pathways are all interconnected and in the static adult cell non phosphorylating glycolysis is in a state of co...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holt JA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder is described as a classic biopsychosocial disorder resulting from complex interactions of biological, psychological, socioeconomic and cultural forces on women. To understand women suffering from the disorder, one must understand how the genetically designed female brain and body i...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Severino SK

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：:Submagnetic domain magnetic fluid particles of approximately 10 nm average diameter complexed with CD4 or monoclonal antibody and then injected into the patient, will localize to the cell membrane of the target cell. These ferrofluid particles will interact with an externally applied rotating magnetic field of rapidly...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Peasley KW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accepted paradigms of mainstream neuropsychiatry appear to be incompletely adequate and in various cases offer equivocal analyses. However, a growing number of new approaches are being proposed that suggest the emergence of paradigm shifts in this area. In particular, quantum theories of mind, brain and consciousn...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tonello L,Cocchi M,Gabrielli F,Tuszynski JA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To discuss the possible pathogenesis of outlet obstructive constipation (OOC) and identify the theoretical basis of the Procedure for Prolapse and Hemorrhoids (PPH) used to treat outlet obstructive constipation (OOC). 19 patients diagnosed with outlet obstructive constipation (OOC) form the case group, and 9 healthy v...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Qin Z,Pang L,Dai W,Yan W,Zhang J,Zhao Y,Li Q,Wu K,Zhou B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute renal failure (ARF) is a rapid loss of kidney function. The reasons and mechanism by which this occurs has not been clarified so far thus creating obstacles to management of this disease. Presently, the experimental research using the accepted renal ischemia reperfusion injury (I/R injury) model represented for ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hao JL,Li YF,Li RS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

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：:The inverse association between maternal folate status and incidence of infants born with neural tube defects (NTD's) was recognized over twenty years ago and led the US health agencies in the early 1990s to recommend that women of childbearing age consume 400 microg of folic acid each day. The FDA followed by mandati...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rogers EJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence exists for the presence of a neuro-anatomy that can produce cardiac vasospasm. Recent experimental and clinical data suggest that this neuro-anatomic mechanism can be activated by behavioral events in the psycho-social surround of the patient with coronary artery disease. I hypothesize that this mechanism can...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Natelson BH

更新日期：1987-12-01 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：:Immune competence is considered as a state of equilibrium between humoral and cellular immunity. This notion fits well with the functionally antagonistic cytokine profiles in cell groups of CD4(+)-helper cells as described by Mosmann and Coffman. The Th-1 cells release mainly IL-2, IL-12 and IFN gamma and thereby stim...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hässig A,Wen-Xi L,Stampfli K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unexpected and novel finding is described and discussed here concerning the synaptic physiology of hippocampal slices during the period of recovery after brain dissection. Contrary to the common notion that the amplitude of synaptic responses recovers in a single exponential rising fashion, we found that synaptic r...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gourov AV

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the theory presented herewith, neoplasia results solely from stem cell depletion. Besides serving as tissue progenitors, stem cells are postulated to secrete a vital substance 'A' necessary for proper tissue function. Carcinogens interfere with 'A' production mainly by destroying stem cells and since the ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zajicek G

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well established that components of wheat gluten and structurally-related cereal proteins produce intestinal damage in Coeliac disease (CD), the primary defect which confers upon the host susceptibility to these dietary substances remains a mystery. To date, three main hypotheses have been framed to exp...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Davidson AG,Bridges MA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic, degenerative disorder of multifactorial aetiology, characterized by loss of articular cartilage and periarticular bone remodelling. Goals of managing OA include controlling pain, maintaining and improving function and health-related quality of life, and limiting functional impairment....

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhang DW,Yang QS,Zhu JY,Cao XR,Li LW,Zhu QS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium is a naturally occurring alkali metal, which living organisms ingest from dietary sources and which is also present in trace amounts in the human body. In much higher concentrations, lithium is effective as a medication for mania and mood swings including manic depressive disorders. Many studies have shown tha...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Demling JH,Eglau MC,Autenrieth T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new prion diseases that have emerged in the last 15 years are bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD). Although initially confined to the UK, these diseases have recently emerged in other European countries. The accepted cause of the human disease is that BSE spre...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brown DR

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The staggering number of publications featuring the use of stem cells has revolutionized regenerative medicine research. Preclinical studies indicate that allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may be useful for the treatment of several clinical disorders, including sepsis, acute renal failure, acute myocardia...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mamidi MK,Pal R,Govindasamy V,Zakaria Z,Bhonde R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cranial nerve rhizophathy, commonly presented with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) or hemifacial spasm (HFS), is a sort of hyperexcitability disorders with higher incidence in senior Asian. In this paper, a novel hypothesis on the pathogenesis is proposed and with which some clinical phenomena are explained. In those wi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu M,Zhong J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent association of laryngeal cancer with asbestos and possibly other occupational exposures can be accounted for by the hypothesis that chronic vocal abuse peculiar to certain working conditions will act as a promoting factor for active carcinogens found mainly in tobacco smoke. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chovil A

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflux of biliary secretions into the pancreatic duct following gallstone obstruction of the common biliary pancreatic ampulla has been implicated as a cause of acute pancreatitis. However, the pancreatic duct pressure is higher than the biliary pressure and, therefore, the simple obstruction of the choledochoduodenal...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Arendt T,Mönig H,Stüber E,Katsoulis S,Fölsch UR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of tumor cells to differentiate in combination with their ability to express genes that are not expressed in normal tissues, may result in the emergence of new cell types in evolution. Tumors may play an evolutionary role by providing conditions (space and resources) for the expression of newly evolving ge...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kozlov AP

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Ontogenesis might be considered as the development of phylogenetically consequent genic systems that mainly imply: homoeotic genes and ras protooncogene in segmentation; ras and myc protooncogenes in gastrulation; ras, myc and other nuclear protooncogenes in organogenesis; ras myc, other nuclear and cytomembrane proto...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Manzo G

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limb remote ischaemia postconditioning (RIPOC), a newly conceived idea of applying brief limb ischaemic stimulus after onset of the myocardial ischaemia but prior to the reperfusion, can offer the possibility of applying this cardioprotective strategy to the patients with acute myocardial infraction. Although incr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Xu YC,Xue FS,Liao X,Xiong J,Yang QY,Wang WL,Zhang YM

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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