The intriguing commonality of NETosis between COVID-19 & Periodontal disease.

abstract：:Some cancer patients live many decades after diagnosis while others are not so fortunate. Understanding why this occurs is a fundamental issue in cancer research. We hypothesize that among the factors controlling favorable outcome are a class of genes that we describe as "good oncogenes". These genes have a paradoxica...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lee JM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have demonstrated the existence of morphological, biological, genetic and antigenic correlations between human and animal retroviruses. Furthermore, some agents of bovine and feline origin can also be considered useful comparative models for the pathogenetic study of human diseases such as leukaemia, a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Di Guardo G

更新日期：1989-07-01 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 mechanisms of fibroproliferation disease (FPD) of the skin, such as keloids and hypertrophic scars, are still unknown. Since mechanical stress appears to be an important factor for FPD generation, we have studied the intervening factors that connect mechanical stress with keloid and scar formation. Hence, we intro...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Akaishi S,Ogawa R,Hyakusoku H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiac disease is an immune mediated disorder, the only one with a well-established origin, resulting from a permanent gluten intolerance. Although a gluten-free diet is currently the "safe" and appropriate therapy for celiac disease, this is not always an easy and simple option as "harmful" gluten may contaminate foo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ivanovski PI,Ivanovski IP,Sedlarevic R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive plasticity, a developmental trait that promotes acquisition of complex skills such as language or playing musical instruments, diminishes substantially during puberty. The loss of plasticity has been attributed to surge of sex steroids during adolescence, but the phenomenon remains poorly understood. We hypo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yun AJ,Bazar KA,Lee PY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author, in an attempt to clarify whether the rise of alternative medicine is a phenomenon characteristic of our time or whether it existed in the past as well, has identified at least three alternative medicines, which developed in ancient Rome, ancient India and in the medieval Islamic world. The circumstances le...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Prioreschi P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental alcohol exposure adversely influences the developing brain. Alcohol exposure during rapid brain growth causes cell loss, alters connections between brain regions, and lowers the production of biological substances responsible for the communication among neurons. It is reasonable to suggest that alcohol m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sher L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The title enzyme, peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase (PHM), is essential to the in vivo generation of a wide variety of physiologically significant alpha-amidated peptide hormones from the corresponding C-terminal glycine-extended prohormones. Over a 20-year period of time a massive amount of experiment...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Owen TC,Merkler DJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome imprinting has an essential role in normal embryonal mammalian development. Starting early in differentiation, the transcripts of certain human genes, e.g. the paternally-H19 and the maternally-imprinted IGF2, are expressed in specific tissues and organs during fetal life. In several malignant disorders, imprin...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Biran H,Ariel I,De Groot N,Hochberg A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:CRPS is an acute pain disease expressed as chronic pain with a severe loss of tissue and function. CRPS usually occurs after minor injuries and then progresses in a way that is scarcely controllable, or completely uncontrollable. This article addresses the functional control mechanism of a biological organis...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： van der Veen P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases like myocardial infarction, complex congenital heart disease, and subsequent heart failure are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in tissue engineering arise to address the lack of available tissues and organs for transplantation because cells alone are not capable of r...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wu KH,Cui B,Yu CT,Liu YL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compensate for the high metabolic costs of lactation, the likelihood of re-impregnation shortly after childbirth is normally reduced due to hormonal changes triggered by breast feeding during the postpartum period. Nowadays, however, bottle feeding as a substitute for breast feeding precludes such changes and leads...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gallup GG Jr,Hobbs DR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercritical carbon dioxide (CO(2)) possesses germicide (bactericide and sporicide) effect. Despite of the fact, that this effect is used in industrial sterilization processes, the sterilization mechanism at molecular level is unclear. Our hypotheses can provide a molecular-biological explanation for the phenomenon. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： András CD,Csajági C,Orbán CK,Albert C,Abrahám B,Miklóssy I

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a presumptive mechanism for the development of changes in respiratory function due to chronic neck pain. The patient with neck pain presents a number of factors that could constitute a predisposition of leading to a respiratory dysfunction: (a) the decreased strength of deep neck flexors and exten...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kapreli E,Vourazanis E,Strimpakos N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new hypothesis claiming that natriuresis of fasting is not only caused by diminished insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia with the subsequent reduction of renal sodium retention but it can also be attributed to the function of the leptin-NPY system. Each element of this concept has been substantiate...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sulyok E,Tulassay T

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reviewed supporting a hypothesis of an anticarcinogenic effect of magnesium. Animal studies reported increased cancer in rodents maintained on magnesium deficient diets and a preventive effect for rodents fed excess levels of magnesium. Epidemiologic evidence is presented that magnesium levels in water, fo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Blondell JM

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most commonly alleged contraindications to the use of (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) chelation therapy is possible renal damage. In this experiment, 13 subjects with chronic degenerative disorders and with renal damage were treated with infusions that included EDTA, vitamins, mineral and oral supplemen...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sehnert KW,Clague AF,Cheraskin E

更新日期：1984-11-01 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

abstract：:Several experiments show that there is a cell to cell communication by light in different cell types. This article describes theoretical mechanisms and subcellular structures that could be involved in this phenomenon. Special consideration is given to the nervous system, since it would have excellent conditions for su...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Grass F,Klima H,Kasper S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic widespread pain syndrome that is estimated to affect 4-8 million US adults. The exact molecular mechanisms underlying this illness remain unclear, rendering most clinical treatment and management techniques relatively ineffective. It is now known that abnormalities in both noci...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Recla JM,Sarantopoulos CD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative condition characterized by tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability. Smoking is an inverse risk factor for Parkinson's disease, although the mechanism for this apparent neuroprotection is not definitively established. Smoking consistently upregulates nicotinic...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chapman MA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) serum levels in man have long been utilized as a tumor marker and as a birth defect screening agent in the clinical laboratory. Although the physiological role of AFP has remained obscure, the stereotypic carrier/transport function of a fetal counterpart to albumin has been attributed to this o...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dauphinée MJ,Mizejewski GJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer pathologies are deeply associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. TFAM, transcription factor A of mitochondria plays eminent role in transcription and replication of mtDNA to synthesize different mitochondrial proteins, has been reported to have elevated levels during malignancy and can be a compelling target o...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pandey AK,Verma S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of acoustic startle reflex is a measure of sensorimotor gating that may reflect the biological processes underlying gaiting impairments in schizophrenia. Although PPI is clinically useful, why PPI is inhibited in schizophrenia is largely unknown. Prepulse inhibition is mediated by M2-like mus...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sato K

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:For reasons that are not known, the incidence of stomach cancer is declining in most countries. In contrast, cancer of the gastric remnant after partial gastrectomy for peptic ulcer disease seems to be increasing. "Stump cancer" has been claimed to be a separate disease entity and has recently been mentioned as an iat...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Domellöf L

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present no good method of assisting the right ventricle of the heart exists. This paper presents a new and effective approach to assisting the right ventricle of the heart which can be utilized independently or during cardiac surgery. Through implementation of this method, and timed inflation and deflation of sever...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gordon RT,Gordon D

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) and electroacupuncture (EA) at specific acupoints have both shown promising anticonvulsant effects in intractable epilepsy patients. The differences between these therapies are target selection and stimulation parameter modulation. It has been demonstrated that EA of the extremities resul...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chen N,Zhang H,Gao XD,Yan N,Ma Y,Yu CJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumstantial evidence links neuropathological changes in postencephalitic Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on Guam to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have neuronal neurofibrillary tangles that anatomically correlate with clinica...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Maurizi CP

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00