Reperfusion injury as a target for diminishing infarct size.

abstract：:Natural objects, live and inanimate, actively maintain their entities by using their capacities (i.e., properties, internal resources, mechanisms, and experience) adequately to their needs. It is suggested that the principle of adequate function is a law of nature. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yabrov A

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class II malocclusion is one of the most common orthodontic problems. The main aetiology of Class II malocclusion is mandibular retrognathia. A variety of functional appliances have been used to stimulate mandibular growth in adolescence, however, the effects remain unsatisfactory. Therefore, new approaches are in nee...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Li Y,Yang P,Fan X,Wang J,Liu J,Zhao Z,Zhao M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no secret that despite the rapid development of new methods of cancer therapy, we still are not able to completely destroy the tumor. Every time we attack the tumor, the tumor neutralizes our attempts. Carcinogenesis can be presented as a tree whose branches are different pro-tumor mechanisms and whose trunk ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Malyshev IY,Kuznetsova LV,Mardente S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer and other diseases may be a natural biological event, the activities of which may be dependent on the constitution of the individual. Where fetal and embryonic cells are not diseased or faulty or defective, they may be useful as therapies against cancer and other diseases. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Caesar G

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea is characterized by episodes of intermittent hypoxia that occur while the afflicted person sleeps, and is believed to affect and have a negative impact on many people worldwide. Both observational evidence in obstructive sleep apnea patients and direct studies in mice mimicking the disease stro...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Johnson PR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For American medical historiography, to borrow from Dickens, these are the best of times and the worst of times. These are the times when rigorous scholarship has been brought to bear on the field (with great improvement in the quality of research) and when medicine is disappearing from its own history. These are the ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Prioreschi P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both human cell lines HL-60 and AML-193 exhibit a myeloblastic and promyelocytic morphology, respectively, but may be regarded as bipotent leukemic precursors. They can be triggered to differentiate to either granulocytes or monocytes upon retinoic acid (RA) or 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (D3) addition, respectively. We h...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Camagna A,Testa U,Masciulli R,Barberi T,Samoggia P,Tritarelli E,Pustorino E,Cipollone L,Ciancio L,del Duca P,Dionisi S,del Vecchio LR,Misasi G,de Martinis C,Peschle C

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No single dietary factor or ingested substance has been implicated in the aetiology of oesophageal carcinoma especially in high-risk areas of the world. Although not well defined, there is heavy consumption of tannin-rich foods, particularly sorghum, by populations at high risk for carcinoma. The carcinogenic properti...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Warner TF,Azen EA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbs and minerals are the integral parts of traditional systems of medicine in many countries. Kushta is a form of herbo-mineral preparations used in traditional systems of medicine (Unani and Ayurvedic) of Indo-Pak subcontinent. These preparations have long been used and claimed to be the most effective and potent d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Aziz N,Gilani AH,Rindh MA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is often associated with insulin resistance, owing to cortisol overproduction; conversely, many studies suggest that diabetics are at increased risk for depression. Recent evidence indicates that insulin is transported through the blood-brain barrier and influences brain function via widely distributed insu...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation and the genes, molecules, and biological pathways that lead to inflammatory processes influence many important and disparate biological processes and disease states that are quite often not generally considered classical inflammatory or autoimmune disorders. These include development, reproduction, aging,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Becker KG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that occurs predominantly in children <5 years of age. For the etiopathogenesis of KD, there is no agreement even as to whether KD is an infectious disease or an immune-mediated disease. The epidemiologic characteristics of KD, including...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lee KY,Han JW,Lee JS

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:The water proton spin lattice relaxation time of normal and tumorous tissues of human and radiosensitivity yield a linear relationship. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Akber SF

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic targeting of liver 5-aminolevulinate synthase (5-ALAS) by inhibition of heme utilisation by tryptophan (Trp) 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) or the use of tryptophan is proposed as a therapy of acute hepatic porphyrias. 5-ALAS, the rate-limiting enzyme of heme biosynthesis, is under negative feedback control by a smal...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Badawy AA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciding for an amputation in case of complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I) is controversial. Evidence for favorable or adverse effects of an amputation is weak. We therefore follow a careful and well-structured decision making process. After referral of the patient with the request to amputate the affected l...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schrier E,Dijkstra PU,Zeebregts CJ,Wolff AP,Geertzen JHB

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anorexia nervosa was explored as the possible expression of an aberration of the processing of information which ordinarily has value in life protection or extension. Each of 6 areas was briefly reviewed, and noted to have the potential for failure to balance 2 or more factors. Anorexia nervosa may prove to be a psych...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Spencer RP

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are assumed to contain all the information necessary for unambiguous folding and specific interaction with each other. However, ab initio structure prediction is often not successful because the amino acid sequence itself is simply not sufficient to guide between endless folding possibilities. It seems to be ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Biro JC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that combination of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) could be useful as the basis for targeted cancer therapy involving antibody-, polymer-, or gene-directed approaches. By circulating IAA in human body, the cells labeled with HRP could be selectively killed since cytoto...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kawano T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repair and reconstruction of tissue defects and organ loss are severe problems, and many patients are eager to find avenues to these matters. Up until now, the number of methods used to repair tissue defects has increased, but all of these have their own advantages and inconveniences, and do not seem to have been ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yang M,Liu L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is sometimes asserted that UK science is thriving, at other times that it has declined. We suggest that both assertions are partly true because the UK is thriving with respect to the volume of 'normal' science production but at the same time declining in the highest level of 'revolutionary' science. Revolutionary s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Charlton BG,Andras P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea-pigs sensitised to ovalbumen excrete the antigen in their urine in a therapeutic concentration which prevents anaphylactic death after injection of a challenge dose of the ovalbumen. Sublingual administration of the correct dose of urine from allergic patients also provides therapeutic control of their allergic...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wilson CW,Lewis A

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：:Cancer's random, reversible, unstable transitions to "normal" structures imply their functional relation. Similar random, continuous, reversible oncogene "mutational transformation" also lacks a consistent hybrid. Positing cancer's "mutationally altered genotype" leads to medically foreign causes, qualities, inducers,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kharasch JA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death prematurely claims the lives of some 7 million each year worldwide. It occurs primarily in patients with an underlying structural cardiac abnormality, and regardless of the type of the underlying pathology (heart failure, dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies, myocardial infarction and aging),...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sovari AA,Morita N,Weiss JN,Karagueuzian HS

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Dental tissues contains stem cells or progenitors that have high proliferative capacity, are clonogenic in vitro and demonstrate the ability to differentiate to multiple type cells involving neurons, bone, cartilage, fat and smooth muscle. Numerous experiments have demonstrated that the multipotent stem cells are not ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Xin LZ,Govindasamy V,Musa S,Abu Kasim NH

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human endometrium is a highly regenerative tissue and contains a low number of cells which have high replicative ability and differentiation efficiency. This has been identified by many scientists. When the fresh growth of tissue and blood vessels is shed during each menstrual cycle, some cells with regenerative capab...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhang MJ,Liu B,Xia W,Sun ZY,Lu KH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous acute occlusion of the coronary artery produces regional myocardial ischemia and infarction. This coronary occlusion could be due to rapid progression of atherosclerosis or vasospasm. The factors that can precipitate an acute attack of myocardial infarction or coronary spasm are not known. It is proposed t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Das UN

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a recently discovered multimeric inflammatory mediator that is structurally linked to short pentraxins, such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid P component. PTX3 is produced by a variety of tissues and cells, including vascular endothelial cells and macrophages. Because of its ext...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Parlak A,Iyisoy A,Aydogan U,Cakir E,Saglam K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00