Balancing and imbalancing effects of astrocytic receptors in tripartite synapses. Common pathophysiological model of mental disorders and epilepsy.

abstract：:Cytokines and their effects are widely studied in immunology, but the cellular mechanisms responsible for producing these substances are not yet described or proven. Antigen presenting cells (APCs), macrophages and dendritic cells are suitable subjects for such a study. One of the many papers illustrating the interpla...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Fedorko ME

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TP53 (Tumor Protein 53, previously known as p53) is probably the best known of all tumor suppressor genes, and is mutated in nearly all (96%) high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGS-OvCa), which is the most common histopathological type of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Recently, TP53 is found to involve in regulating...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hu J,Liu Z,Wang X

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ovarian cancer has a different prognosis between early (I and II) and advanced stage (III and IV). The mechanism of disease progression is unknown, but patients with advanced disease may have a higher propensity for seeding of the abdominal cavity early in the disease process than those with early stage. The...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Horvath LE,Werner T,Boucher K,Jones K

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to develop a method to ascertain whether ancient physicians used certain drugs because of their efficacy or for other reasons (random process, tradition, etc.), the authors have devised a statistical test (Efficacy Quotient-EQ) to evaluate ancient therapeutic data quantitatively. They have applied the Eff...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Prioreschi P,Heaney RP,Brehm E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism is a severe developmental disability believed to have multiple etiologies. This paper outlines the possibility of a subacute, chronic tetanus infection of the intestinal tract as the underlying cause for symptoms of autism observed in some individuals. A significant percentage of individuals with autism have a ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bolte ER

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors hypothesize that the impairment of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa depends (at least in part) on the increased sensitivity to endogenous melatonin. The hypothesis is based mainly on the following facts: (1) melatonin is well known to exert an inhibitory effec...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pawlikowski M,Zarzycki J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presented hypothesis suggests that chronic latent malaria infection prepares the niche where the otherwise feeble HIV coinfection can thrive and cause AIDS. It is suggested that the roots of the HIV outbreak and AIDS pandemic lay in the urbanization processes in Africa that resulted in the eradication of the Anoph...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yaffe I

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic Interstitial Nephritis in Agricultural Communities (CINAC) continues to attract controversy in the scientific community. It was previously known as Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) and is not associated with the common aetiological factors such as diabetes. There is general acceptance that it ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rodrigo C,Nawarathne P,Jayasinghe S

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:In view of the limited success of available treatment modalities for metastatic tumor, alternative and complementary strategies need to be developed. Oncolytic viruses are capable of selective replication in malignant cells and therefore offer levels of potency and specificity that are potentially far higher than conv...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Deng W,Jia J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In endemic pemphigus foliaceus (EPF) or "fogo selvagem" the epidemiological evidence shows that all the described outbreaks occur on the banks of rivers where there is mercury contamination from alluvium gold mining and deforestation. Pathophysiological evidence shows a similarity to pemphigus induced by sulphydryl (S...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Robledo MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistent use of different forms of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is an under-investigated issue in medical research. While the data concerning the proportion of long-term users in the population of total NRT users seems reassuring at first glance, we must recognize that the small relative numbers (proportio...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dome P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By influencing fetal brain development pregnancy may be prolonged beyond term for an unknown time period. In late gestation the mother animal (host) is nephrectomized. The urine of the fetus (transplant) is guided to the outside so that the fetal kidneys excrete the host's urinary secretory substances and eventually h...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Metka W

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present report we have developed a mathematical model to describe the processes involved during high steroid therapy. We have shown that the model can predict clinical observations as well as determine the optimum steroid regimen without relying on trial and error methods. The model incorporates rate processes ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Golding EM,Golding RM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is postulated that the metabolically variable fine structure of pericellular heparan glycosaminoglycans affects the ability of these molecules to influence cell proliferation-associated proteinase-catalysed reactions occurring at cell surfaces. Evidence suggesting the possibility of a wide repertoire of glycosamino...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Long WF,Williamson FB

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread around the world. At this time, there is no vaccine that can help people prevent the spread of coronavirus. We are proposing amantadine as a drug that can be used to mitigate the effects of the virus. It is demonstrated by docking models how amantadine can exert its action on Coronaviru...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Abreu GEA,Aguilar MEH,Covarrubias DH,Durán FR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined as elevated mean pulmonary artery pressure secondary to e.g. congenital heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It elevates right ventricular afterload that eventually leads to cor pulmonale and right heart failure. Experimental research has shown that cardioprot...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Maarman GJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the lymphatic system by Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria is the most common cause of elephantiasis, a disease that affects over 100 million people. The nightly release of microfilaria into the circulation coincides with the feeding activity of its mosquito vector, a synchronization that is presumably an ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sack RL

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:An immune modulation complex is proposed which recognizes and is driven by an MHC presented epitope of the CD4 molecule present on the surface of up regulated CD4+ lymphocytes. Immune modulation is affected by both CD4 lymphocyte destruction and impairment of their potential for immune recognition. These two processes...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kennedy JR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested here that a Hemoglobin S (HbS)-mediated membrane oxidant injury is responsible for both the protection from malaria infection in the heterozygous sickle cell state, and for a critical pathologic process in homozygous sickle cell disease. This suggestion is arrived at by applying to the HbS condition th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Anastasi J

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affected individual of hair loss demands help, because hair is viewed as a sign of youth and good health. Nowadays treatment of alopecia includes drug therapy and hair transplantation. Some drugs may promote hair growth, at least temporarily, but the treatment is effective only in milder alopecia, instead of exten...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhao J,Liu LQ,Wang YJ,Yang W,Geng WX,Wei J,Li LW,Chen FL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major thesis of the proposed hypothesis is that in the absence of microbial material synovial macrophages in rheumatoid arthritis patients continue to release interleukin 1, which perpetuates the inflammation so characteristic of the disease. Its release is suggested to result from an altered synovial macrophage g...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rafter GW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma constitution originates in the hetero-duplication mitoses (4) which divide non-maturable stem cells into two different types of daughter cells: maturable and non-maturable cancerous stem cells. Throughout the progression of such mitoses, the organoid continuity of the cancer depends only on the non-maturable...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hirata Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation integrates diverse mechanisms that are associated not only with pathological conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, but also with physiological processes like reproduction i.e. oogenesis and embryogenesis as well as aging. In the curre...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Aller MA,Arias N,Fuentes-Julian S,Blazquez-Martinez A,Argudo S,Miguel MP,Arias JL,Arias J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulointerstitial fibrosis is a final common pathway to the eventual structural desolation of kidneys. However, the mechanism involved in this phenomenon is still poorly understood, and current therapies are ineffective or only marginally effective. Mast cell has a variety of physiological and pathological functions ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Li Y,Liu FY,Peng YM,Li J,Chen J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of anatomical realism in sculpture with the Classical Greeks puzzles art historians. Recently, it has been discovered that the motor cortex perceives motor actions. I argue that Classical artists discovered a new aesthetic based on using art to stimulate not just, as previously, the visual cortex, but also th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Skoyles JR

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optic neuropathy is an invaliding pathology with diverse clinical manifestation and varying causes. Current understanding of etiopathological aspects of optical neuropathy does not provide an effective treatment protocol. In this article we discuss existing treatment methods, and their effectiveness, evaluated dependi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Shkarubo AN,Nikolenko VN,Velichko AY,Sinelnikov MY

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:The prevalence of autism has increased dramatically over the last 60 years, and the cause of this increase is unclear. In this paradigm-shift paper, I propose an explanatory paradigm for the cause of autism and its increased prevalence in the general population. I also discuss how social and historical contexts may ha...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McDonald TAM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00