Scrub typhus re-emergence in India: Contributing factors and way forward.

abstract：:Recent studies confirm that dietary methionine restriction increases both mean and maximal lifespan in rats and mice, achieving "aging retardant" effects very similar to those of caloric restriction, including a suppression of mitochondrial superoxide generation. Although voluntary caloric restriction is never likely ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF,Barroso-Aranda J,Contreras F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are large amounts of zinc in muscle and zinc ions can enhance the degree of muscle contraction in response to direct stimulation while at the same time inhibiting neuromuscular transmission. The opposites of these effects would lead to myotonia and muscle weakness. There are many parallels between the non-muscul...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Horrobin DF,Morgan RO

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Operative risk prediction systems (logistic EuroSCORE I, EuroSCORE II and STS Score) are employed together with multidisciplinary discussion to contraindicate conventional surgery in patients with valvular heart disease and propose the employment of alternative transcatheter procedures. The EuroSCORE I has b...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Anselmi A,Ruggieri VG,Harmouche M,Mascle S,Auffret V,Le Breton H,Beneux X,Verhoye JP

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic iris sphincter tear has been thought to occur secondary to anteroposterior compression of the globe with defined forces lead to equatorial expansion and active pull along the corneoscleral junction and sphincter tear. However, here in this report, we elaborate the additional forces involved in the traumatic ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pujari A,Agarwal D,Kumar Behera A,Bhaskaran K,Sharma N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison is made of the x-ray induced thyroid adenocarcinoma in the rat by the in-vitro, in-vivo method of Clifton et al. with previous data of Doniach on in-vivo irradiation in whole animals. The Clifton data consists of only one point at 500 rad. I have assumed that the probability of transformation per viable c...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rosen P

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of malignant tumors. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO(2)) shows beneficial effects in various modalities of cancer interventions. Tumor cells tend to accumulate large amount of iron. There is interaction between tissue content of oxygen, iron, free radic...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Al-Waili NS,Butler GJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis and the acquisition of an angiogenic phenotype is important for cancer cell proliferation. Copper in an essential trace element that participates in many enzymatic complexes like the cytochrome c, superoxide dismutase and lysyl oxidase and it is involved in processes, like embryogenesis, growth, angiogene...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Antoniades V,Sioga A,Dietrich EM,Meditskou S,Ekonomou L,Antoniades K

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiologic basis of urinary tract anomalies and dysfunctional voiding largely remain unknown. However, the travel of urine from renal pelvis into the amniotic cavity under the pressures exerted by amniotic fluid satisfactorily explains the etiologic basis. Amniotic pressure is affected by the changes in maternal in...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tanyel FC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is complex and not clear on the mechanism of pathogenesis. On the basis of analysis of the symptom and pathology of rheumatoid arthritis patients, we raised a new hypothesis. The content of the hypothesis is as follows: (A) Collagen II or collagen II-Iike substance in human cartilage is the cross-...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wang J,Liu X,Li F,Yao L

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P53 is an oncosuppressor protein which acts via transcriptional and non-transcriptional mechanisms. The transcriptional function of p53 is mediated by specific responsive elements (RE). In the present study we found one perfect p53 RE located in the first intron of the gene encoding for CD58 (lymphocyte function Antig...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sampaziotis F,Kokotas S,Gorgoulis VG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper compares two models of the sense of smell and demonstrates that the new model has advantages over the accepted model with implications for medical research. The accepted transduction model had an odourant or pheromone contacting an aqueous sensory lymph then movement through it to a receptor membrane beneat...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nicholson B

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary but increasing evidence suggests that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Tourette's syndrome (TS), and restless legs syndrome (RLS) may be comorbid. In the present article, we hypothesize that ADHD, TS, and RLS may be part of a spectrum, and that iron deficiency contributes to the pathophysio...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cortese S,Lecendreux M,Bernardina BD,Mouren MC,Sbarbati A,Konofal E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noonan syndrome (NS OMIM 163950) is a relatively common autosomal dominant developmental disorder characterized by short stature, specific facial features, and congenital cardiac anomalies. Approximately 50-66% of cases have defined mutations in the K-ras/Raf/MEK/ERK pathway that lead to constitutive signaling, but a ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Huang X,Fu Y,Charbeneau RA,Neubig RR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypothesis is suggested, which emphasizes the role in carcinogenesis of the attack on low molecular nucleophilic substances (LMN) by electrophilic agents - chemical carcinogens, phisical factors, and antitumor alkylating agents. The significance of the degree of nucleophilicity (electronic charge, order of bonds, in...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Raikov ZD,Christova-Georgieva NI,Raikova ET

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consideration of nine major factors predisposing to cerebral thrombosis, coronary thrombosis or thrombosis in the deep veins of the calf, reveals that these factors all have one thing in common. Estrogen administration, pregnancy, ageing, smoking, infection, trauma, surgery, soft water and winter season are all associ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Clemetson CA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia (FM) is a debilitating, widespread pain disorder that is assumed to originate from inappropriate pain processing in the central nervous system. Psychological and behavioral factors are both believed to underlie the pathogenesis and complicate the treatment. This hypothesis, however, has not yet been suffi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hulens M,Dankaerts W,Stalmans I,Somers A,Vansant G,Rasschaert R,Bruyninckx F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on receptor stability suggest that functional conversion of adrenoceptors between alpha and beta can occur in mammalian myocardium due to variations in the environment such as temperature changes, pH or hormonal changes. If adrenoceptors of the respiratory system behave similarly, heat and water loss of airway...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Venugopalan CS,Jenkins HJ,Drazen JM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have recently reported a possible inverse relationship between taking steroids or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or both, and the development of Alzheimer's disease. In this article it is hypothesized that the reduction in the human body of the amount of available arachidonic acid, the precursor of...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Newman PE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exact contribution of the sirtuin family of NAD+-dependent histone deacetylases to longevity in metazoans is, at present, not completely understood but nonetheless regarded as significant. Despite the rapidly accreting evidence solidifying the role of NAD+-dependent histone deacetylase activity in longevity-promot...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tapia PC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical Hypotheses exists to give ideas and speculations in medicine a fair hearing. Doing this is not easy. Most conventional journals would regard some of what is published here as questionable, most referees would reject it as 'unproven'. We have more liberal standards, for reasons we have presented before. But we ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bains W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being born in the winter and spring significantly increases one's risk for developing schizophrenia. This birth seasonality may account for as many as 10% of all cases of schizophrenia. Maternal third trimester infections or vitamin D deficiencies are hypothesized to be the most likely cause and can account for many o...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schwartz PJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：:Trypanosomiasis (whether African sleeping sickness, or American Chaga's disease) is caused by an infection with a protozoan parasite, i.e. the trypanosome. This carries fatal sequences in the untreated host. Currently available chemotherapeutic drugs (some of which cure by involving reactive oxygen species (ROS] are n...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eze MO

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection has been recognized as clonal non-neoplastic lymphoproliferative diseases. However, some reports of cases with a multiphenotypic expansion of EBV-infected lymphocytes give rise to questions of how EBV infects multiphenotypic lymphocytes and whether chronic active EBV i...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Endo R,Yoshioka M,Ebihara T,Ishiguro N,Kikuta H,Kobayashi K

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) a neurodegenerative disorder of widely distributed cortical networks evolves over years while A beta (Aβ) oligomer neurotoxicity occurs within seconds to minutes. This disparity combined with disappointing outcomes of anti-amyloid clinical trials challenges the centrality of Aβ as principal me...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Engel PA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, relevant efforts have been made to reduce the cancer incidence in the European Union. The prevention programmes against cancer have obtained satisfactory results except for colorectal cancer (CRC). Identification of risk factors is primordial to plan preventive strategies for CRC. We hypothesize t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Manerio E,Rodas VL,Costas E,Hernandez JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) has emerged in the last thirty years as a critical complication of cystic fibrosis (CF) and is present in about 15% of CF patients with increasing prevalence with age approaching 50 for over 30 year olds. The mechanism of diabetes development in this group of patients is not ver...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ali BR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00