Could imiquimod (Aldara 5% cream) or other TLR7 agonists be used in the treatment of COVID-19?

abstract：:Chronic, tertiary Lyme disease, a vector-borne infection most accurately designated neuroborreliosis, is often misdiagnosed. Infectors of the human brain, Lyme borrelial spirochetes are neurotropic, similar to the spirochetes of syphilis. Symptoms of either disease may be stable and persistent, transient and inconsist...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sherr VT

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiologic findings of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) among patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) suggest that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is insufficient for the development of KS. It was speculated that another sexually transmitted infection is responsible for the markedly increa...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rechavi G,Katzir N,Ramot B

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To discuss the possible pathogenesis of outlet obstructive constipation (OOC) and identify the theoretical basis of the Procedure for Prolapse and Hemorrhoids (PPH) used to treat outlet obstructive constipation (OOC). 19 patients diagnosed with outlet obstructive constipation (OOC) form the case group, and 9 healthy v...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Qin Z,Pang L,Dai W,Yan W,Zhang J,Zhao Y,Li Q,Wu K,Zhou B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstable (CAG)n trinucleotide repeat microsatellites are hypothesized to cause schizophrenia. The (CAG)n microsatellite of dominant spinal cerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a candidate schizophrenia gene. Autism results from expansions of (CGG)n and (GAA)n trinucleotide repeat stretches at fragile X syndrome (FRAXA),...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Fischer KM

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic adult periodontitis (CAP) is a common disease of the supporting tissues of teeth, and is a major cause of tooth loss. This disease is distinguished from more rare rapidly progressing forms of periodontitis, in which a variety of neutrophilic polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) defects have been identified. PMN d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zoellner H,Hunter N

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV may induce subclinical neuroendocrine dysfunctions in some seropositive patients and these dysfunctions may be one of the co-factors that determine the pathogenesis of AIDS. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Salomon JC

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper treats evidence for an increasing recognition of a force with intangible properties in biosystems with special reference to its ability to transport electrons at near 0 degree Kelvin. It is implied that such force, whose demonstration at these temperatures is an experimental contrivance to emphasise its str...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reid BL

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested here that a Hemoglobin S (HbS)-mediated membrane oxidant injury is responsible for both the protection from malaria infection in the heterozygous sickle cell state, and for a critical pathologic process in homozygous sickle cell disease. This suggestion is arrived at by applying to the HbS condition th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Anastasi J

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several disorders or abnormalities observed in medicine and psychology are not explicable (or not fully explicable) by genetics and environmental influences, either alone or together. These include phobias and philias observed in early infancy, unusual play in childhood, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, a chil...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Stevenson I

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is postulated that the metabolically variable fine structure of pericellular heparan glycosaminoglycans affects the ability of these molecules to influence cell proliferation-associated proteinase-catalysed reactions occurring at cell surfaces. Evidence suggesting the possibility of a wide repertoire of glycosamino...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Long WF,Williamson FB

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis B infection leads to various profound pathological processes in liver metabolism. Some biochemical alterations detectable by blood analysis are currently used for a preliminary evaluation of the infection. Based on existing data we present here evidence that non-protein amino acid L-homoserine is a patho...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gazarian KG,Gening LV,Gazarian TG

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biophysical processes during electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are discussed. The multilayer head structure causes a shunting and spreading of the major portions of the current all over the extracranial tissues. The final effect is that only a small percentage of the injected current passes into the brain. The secon...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zyss T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disturbances and depression are supposed to have a negative impact on patients' outcome in malignant tumour disease. On the other hand, poor prognosis in cancer patients is associated with chronic immune challenge which is paralleled by enhanced degradation of the essential amino acid tryptophan and thus decrease...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Murr C,Widner B,Sperner-Unterweger B,Ledochowski M,Schubert C,Fuchs D

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis is put forward that coronary heart disease (CHD) arises from a chronic imbalance between anabolism and catabolism in the body, induced by the psychosocial environment and mediated through the central nervous system (CNS) and neuroendocrine system. Psychosocial demands increase periods of waking arousal ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： StGeorge DP

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid hydrolysis of components from the diet in the stomach require the presence of an acid and a hydrolysing agent. The acid involved is hydrochloric acid. The present mechanism of hydrochloric acid production in the stomach is demonstrated to be incompatible with measured intracellular or intercellular concentrations...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Robertson DS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous papers of our group have reported that, in the first stages of nutritional recovery, the needs of undernourished infants, in terms of Protein Calories percentage (P%) were higher than normal, and similar to those of other mammals which double their birth weight faster than man. During this period, a high diet...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Portela ML,Zeni S,Río ME

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomized clinical trials comparing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by surgery with initial surgery in cervical cancer reported conflicting results. We provided a hypothesis explaining the different outcomes between trials. NAC was reported to make a lymph node metastasis smaller. Smaller tumors are hard to d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kim K,Kim MJ,Chung HH,Choi SC,Ryu SY,Kim JW,Park NH,Song YS,Kang SB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of drug-induced agranulocytosis is poorly understood. Many drugs that induce neutropenia or agranulocytosis can be metabolized to reactive intermediates that covalently bind to macromolecules. Until now, the myeloid precursor cell or an earlier committed progenitor cell has been favoured as the target for...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Guest I,Uetrecht J

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-allylgutimine has immunostimulant and tumor cell inhibitory activities. This complex action may be a result of the stimulation of IL-2 production. The effectiveness of immunotherapy depends on the uncoupling of IL-2 downregulation. This principle can be widely used with those immunological diseases where IL-2 level ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Vértesi C

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In smoking cessation trials, placebo response rates are reported to be rather low, and they are lowest when compared to the placebo response rates of treatment of other addictions. We hypothesized that high placebo response rates in trials outside of cessation treatment may predict low participation of smoke...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Enck P,Weimer K,Klosterhalfen S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although fibrosis and emphysema are in many ways on opposite ends of the pulmonary parenchymal disease spectrum, they seem to share common pathomechanistic steps. This is illustrated by the coexistence of both entities in lungs of individuals with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. Macroproteins elastin and co...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Janssen R,de Brouwer B,von der Thüsen JH,Wouters EFM

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:There is widespread loss of acetylcholine and other neurotransmitters in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. It has generally been assumed that death of neurons causes neurotransmitter loss, but alternatively neurotransmitter depletion itself may at least contribute to neurodegeneration. PRESENTATION...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Alisky JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary reports have suggested that chronic, intermittent electrical stimulation of the cervical vagus nerve (VNS) is an effective treatment for patients who suffered from medically refractory epilepsy. But the traditional VNS is an invasive and implantable procedure that will bring some injury to the patient. Ana...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yang AC,Zhang JG,Rong PJ,Liu HG,Chen N,Zhu B

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizure (ictal) behavior in humans has been observed and recorded since ancient times. A satisfactory solution to this vexing problem continues to elude medical science. Antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy fails to control seizures in 20% of patients with primary generalized epilepsy and 35% of patients with partial epil...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Doman G,Pelligra R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical syndrome of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) which occurs in association with birth asphyxia, is thought to represent a reperfusion injury consequent upon the generation of cytotoxic oxygen derived free radicals. It has recently been suggested that resuscitation of asphyxiated infants with unrestrict...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ballot DE,Rothberg AD,Davies VA,Smith J,Kirsten G

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to classical metastatic pathways, recently gastric cancer was described having an alternative route called "endoluminal exfoliation". Provisional analyses demonstrated, in fact, this kind of shedding is associated with several clinico-pathological features indicative of aggressive behavior and resulted to ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Virgilio E,Balducci G,Mercantini P,Giarnieri E,Giovagnoli MR,Montagnini M,Proietti A,D'Urso R,Cavallini M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "small-for-size" syndrome and "post-hepatectomy liver failure" refers to the development of liver failure (hyperbilirubinemia, coagulopathy, encephalopathy and refractory ascites) resulting from the reduction of liver mass beyond a certain threshold. This complication is associated with a high mortality and is a m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Asencio JM,Vaquero J,Olmedilla L,García Sabrido JL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) accumulate in tumor-bearing hosts and play an essential role in tumor-associated immunosuppression, which hampers effective immunotherapeutic approaches. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs that negatively regulate target gene expression at the posttranscriptional level...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tian J,Rui K,Wang S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (sALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with no known cause. There are many clues to suggest an environmental trigger for the disease, including reports of conjugal couples and co-localized employees that developed sALS. On the island of Guam,a very high incidence of sALS occ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Stommel EW,Field NC,Caller TA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00