Acupuncture-brain interactions as hypothesized by mood scale recordings.

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：: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：:Yawning is a stereotyped event that occurs in humans and animals from fish to mammals, but neither its mechanisms nor its functions are entirely known. Its widespread nature suggests that it has important physiological functions. It is associated with stretching of muscles in a large area, but the function of this str...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Matikainen J,Elo H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low carbohydrate high fat (LCHF) diets are emerging in popularity. Several athletics have adopted LCHF diets in an attempt to improve exercise performance and body composition by enhancing fat utilization. However, these diets impair maximal and supramaximal exercise performance due to limited glycogen stores as well ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kaviani M,Izadi A,Heshmati J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute stroke, including acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and acute hemorrhagic stroke, (AHS) is a common medical problem with particular relevance to the demographic changes in industrialized societies. In recent years, treatments for AIS have emerged, including thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA). Althou...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kikuchi K,Kawahara K,Miyagi N,Uchikado H,Kuramoto T,Morimoto Y,Tancharoen S,Miura N,Takenouchi K,Oyama Y,Shrestha B,Matsuda F,Yoshida Y,Arimura S,Mera K,Tada K,Yoshinaga N,Maenosono R,Ohno Y,Hashiguchi T,Maruyama

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events occur in the lives of millions of individuals each year. Such events, or "stressors", are experiences that threaten personal well-being, and include traumatic events such as motor vehicle collision, infectious illness, and situations such as military deployment. While most individuals recover from suc...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McLean SA,Clauw DJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial resistance to conventional as well as newly introduced drugs is a hallmark feature of several infectious diseases, notably tuberculosis. It is hypothesized that the greater the selective pressure exerted by increasingly potent drugs, the more rapidly is an organism able to adapt to a drug-containing environm...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Basu A,Mistry NF,Antia NH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many brilliant and ambitious young women lose their drive for top careers after childbirth. New maternal impulses are at odds with their original ambitions and for many mothers stress and frustration will be the result as they have to combine child care with workweeks of 60-80h to reach or remain at the top. Pregnancy...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schulpen TWJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent articles about the roles and relationships of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 and transforming growth factor-beta 1 in various types of normal tissues and malignancies give rise to the question: 'Is there a relationship between them with regard to malignant melanoma progression?' In the light of many re...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kurdoglu M,Güllü IH,Akalin I

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is the second largest cause of preventable death in the United States. Historically, obesity was considered a behavioral problem that could be simply addressed with behavioral modifications in diet and exercise. As scientific advancements have demonstrated in other neurological healthcare conditions such as al...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Blum K,Chen TJ,Meshkin B,Downs BW,Gordon CA,Blum S,Mangucci JF,Braverman ER,Arcuri V,Deutsch R,Pons MM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anorexia nervosa manifests a wide range of features which cannot fully be explained on the basis of socio-cultural pressures to be thin, nor by starvation, nor dehydration. Evidence is emerging of a significant neurobiological contribution to its aetiology. However there has to date been no explanation for its pathoge...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nunn K,Frampton I,Lask B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral glucosamine has anti-inflammatory activity in rodents, and anecdotal evidence suggests that it may be clinically useful in inflammatory bowel disorders. A possible explanation is that supplemental glucosamine increases production of heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans by the vascular endothelium, thereby improving...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypterphosphorylation of tau proteins is a well-established step in the expression of the pathological features in Alzheimer's disease (AD). While a primary event that links aluminum and AD, the so-called 'aluminum hypotheses', is far from being demonstrated, however, the metal ion could be an important etiologica...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zatta PF

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) and asthma have been linked, but the true nature of this relationship is incompletely understood. Most of the literature examining this association has implicated GER as the factor contributing to asthma. GER has also been linked to conditions of the upper airway like sinusitis and obstru...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Turbyville JC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpura fulminans is a life threatening complication of many septic states, most notably meningococcaemia. It can also occur due to congenital deficiency of anticoagulant proteins. The pathophysiology of purpura fulminans is complex and not fully understood, but involves abnormalities of coagulation pathways, damage t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Oram J,Bodenham A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphatic system is an important component of human health and is critical in maintaining microcirculatory flow and immune system homeostasis. During septic shock, increased capillary permeability results in excess filtration of intravascular fluid and solutes producing interstitial edema with subsequent hydrostat...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pruitt LG

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender differences in stem cell population have recently been identified. Blood and tissue samples from women showed consistent elevation of hematopoietic stem cell populations, mesenchymal stem cell populations and endothelial progenitor cells compared to men of similar ages. We and others have shown an increase in h...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： El-Badri NS,Groer M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general theory of neural circuitry is proposed wherein neural impulses travel in a continuous circuit from the brain to the extremities and back to the brain. At the extremities the impulse may be modified by the environment there. At the spinal column the return signal is compared with the outgoing signal and the a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kingham DJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several hypotheses have been developed to interpret the progression of tubulointerstitial fibrosis (TF), including senescence, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, inflammation, chronic hypoxia, and reactive oxygen species. All of these hypotheses are based on persistent cell injury and localized cell death. Proliferati...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chen BC,Bai YH,Tang LL,Wang BQ,Liu B,Cai Y,Peng X,Yang YR,Zheng SL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a common cause of nephrotic disease in adults, and it is thought to be increasing in incidence. FSGS is often difficult to treat and even has a high propensity to relapse after transplant. Indeed, this suggests that there might be some circulating factor responsible for pro...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Altschuler EL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why is modern science less efficient than it used to be, why has revolutionary science declined, and why has science become so dishonest? One plausible explanation behind these observations comes from an essay First and second things published by CS Lewis. First Things are the goals that are given priority as the prim...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Charlton BG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental caries, a bacterial process that results in the acidic destruction of tooth structure, has historically been managed by the mechanical excavation of diseased tooth structure and then restoration with a synthetic material. The mechanical excavation of the infected site is most commonly achieved by a dental handp...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Quock RL,Patel SA,Falcao FA,Barros JA

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Endemic cancer of the oesophagus in Africa is associated with the use of maize as the staple. In one African community endemic cancer of the oesophagus has been shown to have a strong statistical association with the consumption of foods based on maize in the meal form. A strong association with consumption of maize m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sammon AM,Iputo JE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is identified as the uniting principle linking the pathogenesis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and carcinoma. Elevated TNF-alpha initially increases, and then inhibits, the activity of a number of ke...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holden RJ,Pakula IS,Mooney PA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP sensitive (K(+)(ATP)) potassium cardiac channels are recruited when ATP levels are low as in ischemic injury and acute trauma. Such activation results in ECG-ST elevation and cardiac arrhythmias. K(+)(ATP) channel recruitment may be blocked by the sulfonylurea glibenclamide, permitting a wide variety of animal exp...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hoffman I,Saltzman B

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been speculated that the rise of the adaptive immune system in jawed vertebrates some 400 million years ago gave them a superior protection to detect and defend against pathogens that became more elusive and/or virulent to the host that had only innate immune system. First, this line of thought implies that ada...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Usharauli D

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive milk consumption may adversely affect the circulation on account of the high calcium content of milk and because lactose promotes the intestinal absorption of calcium. Excessive calcium intake may cause calcification and rigidification of the large elastic arteries, which could be an important factor in caus...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Seely S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischaemic stroke ranks among the most important causes of death and disability in developed countries. Abnormal lipid metabolism is among the several factors that have a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We hypothesize that the decreased resistance of low-density lipoproteins against oxidative stress is an ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bereczki D,Balla G,Csiba L,Jeney V,Valikovics A,Magyar T,Balla J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary reports have demonstrated that anterior nucleus thalamus high-frequency electrical stimulation (ANT-HFS) is an effective treatment for patients who suffer from medically refractory epilepsy. However, its extensive application has been hampered by the high cost and the unpredictable outcome before the opera...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yan N,Chen N,Lu J,Wang Y,Wang W

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00