Thalidomide for autoimmune disease.

abstract：:Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a powerful clinical tool to identify embryos with or at risk of specific genetic diseases before implantation in utero after in vitro fertilization (IVF). PGD is performed on embryo biopsies that are obtained by aspiration of one or two cells from pre-implantation embryos at...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Assou S,Aït-Ahmed O,El Messaoudi S,Thierry AR,Hamamah S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN), which is also called BASIGIN/CD147, is a cell surface glycoprotein that belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily and plays a significant role in intercellular recognition in immunology, cellular differentiation and development. Apart from ACE-2, recently EMMPR...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Varadarajan S,Balaji TM,Sarode SC,Sarode GS,Sharma NK,Gondivkar S,Gadbail A,Patil S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent articles about the roles and relationships of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 and transforming growth factor-beta 1 in various types of normal tissues and malignancies give rise to the question: 'Is there a relationship between them with regard to malignant melanoma progression?' In the light of many re...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kurdoglu M,Güllü IH,Akalin I

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-alpha (IFN) is widely used in the treatment of certain cancers and viral infections, including hepatitis C (HCV). Unfortunately, depression is a common side effect of IFN therapy, affecting approximately a third of HCV patients receiving IFN therapy. Studies have shown that selective serotonin reuptake inhi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Turner EH,Blackwell AD

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Genetic linkage studies and genome wide analysis have provided insights into complex medical diseases. Mycobacterium avium ss. paratuberculosis (MAP) causes Johne's disease, an important enteric inflammatory disease mostly studied in ruminant animals. MAP is also the putative cause of Crohn's disease. Moreover, MAP ha...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Dow CT

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular diseases, and an estimated 972 million people in the world are suffering from this problem. Indubitably, hypertension is an important worldwide public-health challenge. In recent years many efforts have been made to devise novel therapies involving new targets implic...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Li YF,Xiao CS,Hui RT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is the second largest cause of preventable death in the United States. Historically, obesity was considered a behavioral problem that could be simply addressed with behavioral modifications in diet and exercise. As scientific advancements have demonstrated in other neurological healthcare conditions such as al...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Blum K,Chen TJ,Meshkin B,Downs BW,Gordon CA,Blum S,Mangucci JF,Braverman ER,Arcuri V,Deutsch R,Pons MM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a plausible and powerful explanation for nicotine addiction that is consistent with recent findings. Sleep apnea, the periodic cessation of breathing during sleep, may be responsible for the addictive nature of nicotine. The main symptoms of sleep apnea are somnolence and obesity. Nicotine has been shown to...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schrand JR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases are associated with neuronal inclusions, comprised of protein aggregates. In Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Lewy Body Disease (LBD) such lesions are distributed in a hierarchical retrograde transynaptic spatial pattern. This implies a retrograde transynaptic temporal propagation as well. There...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Royall DR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a complex and heterogeneous disease characterized by central obesity, impaired glucose metabolism, dyslipidemia, arterial hypertension, insulin resistance and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein. In 2006, a neurotrophic hypothesis of the etiopathogenesis of MetS was launched. This hypothes...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hristova MG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known, that initial events in atherosclerosis arise in the intima with a parallel influx of inflammatory cells. I propose the opposite - that the disease onset begins from the media vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) involvement and through its utilization of modified low-density lipoproteins (LDL), and free or ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chepelenko GV

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder, with increasing incidence and prevalence in the last one-half century. IBD patients suffer from autonomic vagal neuropathy and nerve dysfunction, with deficiency of acetylcholine in inflamed mucosa. Recent studies showed that death of enteric neuron ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Guo Y,Lu N,Bai A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence rate of cutaneous melanoma has been increasing faster than that of any other cancer in white-skinned populations over the past decades. The main risk factors for melanoma (i.e. exposure to sunlight, naevus count, phototype, and family history of melanoma) may not wholly explain the epidemiological trends...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kvaskoff M,Weinstein P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puberty is starting earlier than ever before and there are serious physiological and sociological implications as a result of this development. Current research has focused on the potential role of high caloric, and commensurate high adiposity, contributions to early puberty. However, girls with normal BMI also appear...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pitynski D,Flynn FW,Skinner DC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic leakage is a lethal postoperative complication to the patients after duodenopancreatectomy for carcinoma of head of pancreas. However, we found that the patients who survived this lethal postoperative complication could potentially acquire a longer survival time comparing with those without postoperativ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu H,Liu M,Yuan T,Tang C,Chen P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The malignant cell, in vivo, metabolizes and respires anaerobically. For a good many years scientists have been aware of anaerobia being present in malignant growths. The prevailing opinion is that the malignant cell is able to remain viable in an anaerobic medium. This assumption is incorrect and is actually misleadi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： White MW

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:Many experimental evidences indicate that infection with Trypanosoma cruzi delays or inhibits the growth of malignant tumors in different strains of mice and in rats. These facts were verified by different workers. Although earlier workers proposed that this effect would be due to a toxin of T. cruzi, most of the accu...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cabral HR

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The universal 24-hour circadian clock has a profound impact on many daily biological processes. Disturbance of circadian rhythms has been implicated in the etiologies of many chronic illnesses, including cancer; with correlations most profoundly found among hormone-related breast and prostate cancers. Given the fact t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhu Y,Zheng T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections are often the etiological agents of severe acute and chronic human diseases. Their peculiar biology usually leads to the need of design specific therapies for each virus, and the eradication of the viruses and the healing of the patients very often are not reached also after decades of theoretical and...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Arancio W

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer incidence increases with age; along with many other cancers, it could be considered a disease of aging. Prostate cancer screening has led to a significant proportion of men diagnosed with low-grade, low-stage prostate cancer who are now more likely to choose an active surveillance strategy rather than ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liss MA,Rickborn L,DiGiovanni J,Bacich D,DeGraffenried LA,Parihar M,Thompson IM,Sharp ZD

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IHH or pseudotumor cerebri) is an uncommon but important cause of headache, characterized by raised intracranial pressure (ICP) in the absence of infection and intracranial pathology on neuroimaging. Lumbar puncture (LP) is usually contra-indicated in situations where the ICP is s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Salman M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are activated in the coronary circulation during acute coronary events (unstable angina and myocardial infarction), often prior to the onset of ischemic damage. Moreover, neutrophils infiltrate coronary plaque in these circumstances, and may contribute to the rupture or erosion of this plaque, triggering t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The staggering number of publications featuring the use of stem cells has revolutionized regenerative medicine research. Preclinical studies indicate that allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may be useful for the treatment of several clinical disorders, including sepsis, acute renal failure, acute myocardia...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mamidi MK,Pal R,Govindasamy V,Zakaria Z,Bhonde R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthritis is inflammation in a joint often with joint damage, usually accompanied by pain, swelling and stiffness, resulting from infection, trauma, degenerative changes, metabolic disturbances, autoimmune or other causes. It occurs in various forms, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, bacterial arthritis ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eby G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune competence is considered as a state of equilibrium between humoral and cellular immunity. This notion fits well with the functionally antagonistic cytokine profiles in cell groups of CD4(+)-helper cells as described by Mosmann and Coffman. The Th-1 cells release mainly IL-2, IL-12 and IFN gamma and thereby stim...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hässig A,Wen-Xi L,Stampfli K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Somatization is a multisomatoform disorder characterized by medically unexplained, functional or psychosomatic symptoms. Similar somatic symptoms are key components of depression and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). METHODS:This paper reviews the evidence that such symptoms are o...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Anderson G,Maes M,Berk M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00