Impact of melanin on choroidal measurements.

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：:The Aquatic Ape Theory claims that human ancestors once lived in a semi-aquatic habitat. Some human diseases might be explained by our aquatic past. Such problems include hyperventilation, periodic breathing, laryngo- and bronchospasm, vasomotor rhinopathy, seborrhea, dandruff, male pattern alopecia, rhinophyma, osteo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Verhaegen MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are differences in male and female height throughout the growth period. Utilising reference standard height charts we calculated the difference in male and female height as a function of age. A triphasic relationship was observed with statistically significant peaks (males greater than females) at 8 months and 1...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schreiber G,Baron B

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unexpected and novel finding is described and discussed here concerning the synaptic physiology of hippocampal slices during the period of recovery after brain dissection. Contrary to the common notion that the amplitude of synaptic responses recovers in a single exponential rising fashion, we found that synaptic r...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gourov AV

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body size and body composition have been suggested as the best explanation for the temporal trend toward early menarche over the last 100 years. There is evidence from human and animal studies that indicates that body size is not the primary factor in influencing the occurrence of menarche. The data actually show that...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sanchez A,Kissinger DG,Phillips RI

更新日期：1981-11-01 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：:Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a histologically benign tumor composed of stroma and vessels. The vascular component of the lesion is prone to bleeding and responsible for its clinical "malignancy". Some nasopharyngeal angiofibromas are resistant to surgical therapy because of extensive growth and occasionally bone des...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Krstulja M,Car A,Bonifacić D,Braut T,Kujundzić M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to Geschwind, Behan and Galaburda (GBG) theory, there is strong evidence that inheritance through maternal line is responsible for the coexistence of asthma and left-handedness early in childhood. A new model that incorporates GBG's theory and maternal inheritance is proposed. This hypothesis suggests that...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Krommydas G,Gourgoulianis KI,Andreou G,Kotrotsiou E,Raftopulos V,Paralikas T,Molyvdas PA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of Medical Hypotheses, Dr H L Newbold repeats the assertion that the cause of James B Duke's death in 1925 was pernicious anemia. Dr Newbold postulates that Mr Duke was neurologically impaired as a result of vitamin B-12 deficiency and that he suffered from depression. In an attempt to relieve this d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Halperin EC

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have the potential to provide a surrogate for "real-time biopsy" of tumor biological activity. Enumeration and molecular characterization of CTCs in pancreatic cancer could play an important role in diagnosis, predicting the risk for tumor recurrence, and providing novel target therapy b...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ren C,Chen H,Han C,Jin G,Wang D,Wang D,Tang D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19), a pandemia emerged recently, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The receptor for corona virus and influenza A is the mucosal cell membrane protein angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which is abundant on the membrane of alveolar cells and ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Niv Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic efficacy of thalidomide in erythema nodosum leprosum suggests that thalidomide might play a useful therapeutic role in other human immune-complex diseases. Thalidomide has shown anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressive actions in several animal models. Current evidence suggests that its rapid activity in...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hendler SS,McCarty MF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper studies how certain topologic features of the nuclear envelope may reorganize entrained transcription via spatial rearrangements of genes carried by distinct chromatids. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Matioli GT

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive carcinoma originates from the epithelial cells lining the lumen of an organ. It is often preceded by metaplasia, dysplasia or carcinoma in situ. The purpose of this review is to suggest that this disease of the epithelium may be, in part, the result of underlying tissue-based disorganization. Human cancer is ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schwartz L,Balosso J,Baillet F,Brun B,Amman JP,Sasco AJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since forced unilateral nostril breathing activates the contralateral brain hemisphere, an animal analogue of this technique could be provided by methylmethacrylate gluing large plastic pellets in either the right or left nostrils in a group of rats. A large number of physiological, pharmacological, and immunological ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Backon J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present an extended version of Clark's and Ariëns's classical theory that enables the interpretation and quantitative characterization of dose-response curves which are not in accordance with classical theory. Being supported by the chemical receptor theory, the new model expands its applicability to two o...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Várkonyi P,Gabányi Z,Körmöczy P

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological findings on the relation between foods and colon cancer are inconsistent. Many, but far from all, found positive associations for meat and fat and negative ones for vegetables and fruits. Explanations so far have focused on direct biochemical conversions in the colon or transit time, but they remain un...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holmqvist OH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild traumatic brain injury, often referred to as concussion, is a common, potentially debilitating, and costly condition. One of the main challenges in diagnosing and managing concussion is that there is not currently an objective test to determine the presence of a concussion and to guide return-to-play decisions fo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cartwright MS,Dupuis JE,Bargoil JM,Foster DC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to search for periodical fluctuations in daily occurrence of gout attacks during the synodic lunar cycle. 126 gout attacks were recorded between 1972 and 1994 at known calendar dates. The synodic plexogram, displaying the number of attacks for each day of the cycle, was processed by cosinor regression. A p...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mikulecký M,Rovenský J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial fraying, splitting and fibrillation of articular cartilage as a consequence of ageing or mechanical injury is not always associated with joint pain. However, similar cartilage lesions accompanied by synovitis and engorgement of the subchondral vasculature generally is; the disorder being known as osteoarth...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ghosh P,Smith M

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：:Endogenous lectins of normal tissues can play a functional role in recognition processes and cell adhesion. These functions are areas of particular relevance to tumor growth and metastasis. Our initial results on endogenous lectins of different tumors lead to the working hypothesis that the pattern of endogenous lecti...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gabius HJ,Engelhardt R,Cramer F

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micelle is a stable, passively targetable and solubilizing minute particle, and plays a key role to anticancer drug delivery for chemotherapy. With an increasing number of novel polymeric micelles synthesized, many anticancer drugs have been core-encapsulated in the micelles. However, only single drug was studied as t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu P,Wang B,Weili Qiao JL

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare dermatological condition belonging to the group of deep neutrophilic dermatoses. It can display a protracted and refractory course. The list of treatments which have been tried and proved their efficacy is long, but none of them provide constant efficacy. In the absence of gold stan...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kluger N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for lipopolysaccharides (endotoxins, LPS) in 7 the pathogenesis of Reye's syndrome (RS) has previously been suggested. Impairment of hepatic LPS clearance can lead to systemic endotoxemia as previous studies by this and other laboratories have suggested for several hepatic disorders including RS. Systemic LPS m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Treon SP,Broitman SA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery for intractable affective illnesses has generated considerable controversy over the last century. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has revolutionized neurosurgical practice, especially in the field of advanced Parkinson's disease and, more recently, in selected medical-refractory cases of obsessive-compulsive diso...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sakas DE,Panourias IG

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern living standard has imposed upon society a situation of chronic sleep deprivation. This chronic loss of sleep affects women more than it does men. As a result, the postponement of pregnancy has become a common choice due to the priority given to social and domestic activities. For women, pregnancy represent...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pires GN,Andersen ML,Giovenardi M,Tufik S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis (RA) presents difficulty in diagnosis, commonly observed flare ups, polycyclical nature of RA progression, and variable response to therapies. Congruent with multiple causes, literature has documented various infectious agents, environmental factors, physical trauma, silica ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Molnar-Kimber KL,Kimber CT

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the evidence of formation of amblyopia is derived traditionally from electrophysiological studies. Recently, there have been many discoveries from genetics, histopathology, biochemistry, immunology and interventional studies. On the basis of evidence gathered in the last five years, the various types of amblyo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tong LM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a physiological state in which the patient feels high levels of fatigue without an obvious organic cause, which affects around 1 in 400 people in the developed world. A wide range of causes have been suggested, including immune or hormonal dysfunction, viral or bacterial infection, and psyc...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bains W

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00