A suggested mechanism for changing tumor cell phenotype: transfection of host cells with DNA sequences of dead tumor cells.

abstract：:The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is responsible for the death of 10,000 infants annually in the U.S.A. The cause of these deaths is not known; all SIDS infants studied died during sleep in a silent fashion and there are no specific lesions observable post mortem. It may be of significance, however, that nearly ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reid GM

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the headline "drug addiction" the medical world has exclusively been interested in psychoactive drugs. For diagnosis of substance dependence (addiction), DSM-IV-TR has determined seven criteria, and fulfilling at least tree of them signifies addiction. When studied salt intake according to these criteria it is s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tekol Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many embryonic genes may be sets of repeated genes. Processes of differentiation where the quantity of gene activity changes during embryogenesis may not reflect the transcription rate per se but instead be a result of the state of expression of constitutive repeated genes. Such repeated genes (in fact or theory) is d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hancock RL

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral arterial disease in the legs represents a subset of atherosclerosis that manifests a particularly sinister profile. A predominance of sympathetic activity in the periphery favors the development of neurogenic atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis may then produce flow derangements and decreased physical activity...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Simpson JD,Doux JD,Lee PY,Yun AJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury is an important cause of neonatal mortality and subsequent serious neurological sequel. In neonatal brain the severity of hypoxic injury varies most probably due to the effects of multiple protective or deleterious factors. But the mechanisms under this difference are still not full under...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kumral A,Tuzun F,Yesilirmak D,Duman N,Ozkan H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a life-threatening disease requiring rapid diagnosis and treatment. Steroid hormones (e.g., estradiol, dehydroepiandosterone) have been suggested to reduce the hyper-inflammatory response of the immune system and to improve outcome in sepsis. We hypothesize that the impact of steroid hormones on the metaboli...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lehmann C,Sharawy N,Zhou J,Pavlovic D

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:This hypothesis would help to elevate safety in nanogold-therapy of some cancers. It has no previous record in published media and there is no existing protocol for what is expressed in this paper. The hypothesis makes some experimental recommendations for future research at the interface of nanotechnology and biologi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bonjar LS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (Af) is the most common disorder of cardiac rhythm and is responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality in the general population. A recent community-based observational study revealed that diabetes and hypertension were associated with the development of Af. Since there is no definite eviden...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yamagishi S,Takenaka K,Inoue H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy type 1 is a lifelong sleep disorder characterized by the loss of hypocretin-producing neurons in the brain. Environmental agents, including influenza, neurotoxic metals, and combustion smoke, have been implicated in the pathogenesis, especially in carriers of the human leukocyte antigen class II DQB1*06:02 ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mori I

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary congestion is a hallmark feature of heart failure and is a major reason for hospital admissions in this patient population. Heart failure patients often demonstrate restrictive and obstructive pulmonary function abnormalities; however, the mechanisms of these changes remain controversial. It has been suggest...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ceridon M,Wanner A,Johnson BD

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Antisense oligonucleotides (oligos) have demonstrated efficacy for the treatment of various cancers, infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. While most studies have utilized single oligos either administered alone, or more recently in combination therapy with other drugs, some investigators have administered more...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rubenstein M,Tsui P,Guinan P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite aggressive intervention, patients who survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) generally have very poor prognoses, with nationwide survival rates of approximately 10-20%. Approximately 90% of survivors will have moderate to severe neurological injury ranging from moderate cognitive impairment to brain ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gul SS,Huesgen KW,Wang KK,Mark K,Tyndall JA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research from our group suggests that patients with lesions in the left inferior parietal lobule (IPL)-which is concerned with abstract numerical cognition and cross-modal association (which is consistent with its strategic location at the crossroads between the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes) have di...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jalal B,Ramachandran VS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down-regulation of hormonal effects is in the presented simulation related to the number of functional receptors and quantity of available hormonal stimulation. The former is in the model substituted with the quantity of stimulation able to produce a full down-regulation (Hs100) of target cells. The halftime (t1/2) of...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kurbel S,Kurbel B,Dicić M,Ugraji V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a chronic neurologic disorder which often induces numerous adverse long-term neurologic effects, such as behavioral and cognitive deficits, increased predisposition to additional seizures, and cell injury or death. Cognitive dysfunction, depression, anxiety and sleep disorders are some of the highly preval...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Vimala PV,Bhutada PS,Patel FR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouth to mouth sexual kissing is seen in more than 90% of human cultures. Various theories have been put forward to account for this but none offer a full explanation within an evolutionary framework. As mouth to mouth sexual kissing exposes each participant to the diseases of the other, it must confer significant ben...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hendrie CA,Brewer G

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The weight of available evidence suggests that leukaemogenesis is a multi-step, complex process. Since there are different types of leukaemia, it seems likely that a variety of distinct molecular mechanisms are involved, arising from different combinations of genetic defects. It is not therefore surprising that studie...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Francis GE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is associated with insulin resistance, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. Postnatal tissues contain stem cells that though quiescent, retain their capacity to self-renew and regenerate tissues to fulfil organ demands. I propo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Cianfarani S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of anti-tumour drug strongly depends on its dose. Higher drug doses and exposure times usually result in better treatment. It is why the implementation of high-dose treatment is always attractive. However, most of the drug delivery techniques meet essential limitations. In isolated regional perfusion a ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rukhlenko OS,Guria GT,Vorobiev AI

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three events, viz. schizophrenia, dissociative anaesthesia and Near-Death Experience, despite their seemingly unrelated manifestation to each other, have nevertheless similar functional basis. All three events are linked to the glutamate sensitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor complex, which serves as their...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bonta IL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is hypothesized that a topical application of a sulfonylurea drug, which can inhibit the ATP-sensitive potassium-gated channels (Kir6.X/SUR) present in human hair bulb tissues, will inhibit hair growth in a targeted manner. Diazoxide is used to treat severe hypoglycemia due to hyperinsulinism of infancy. However, t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Newfield RS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogenic action of the estrogen-receptor complex is supposedly similar in both normal and malignant target tissues. As receptors are present in several types of non-target tissues, in the case of lesions at the nuclear acceptor sites, the complex in those might be able to cause successive mitoses. Estrogen-depend...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Litvay M

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism continues to be a significant cause of psychosocial pathology in affected children and adults. Until recently, the predominant research thrust to uncover the cause of this condition has been the search for a major nuclear mutation. Although a small percentage of cases do demonstrate such a DNA fault, recent eff...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Steinman G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Space adaptation syndrome (SAS) incapacitates about 50% of the astronauts with symptoms of headache, malaise, vomiting, vertigo, etc. A hypothesis that SAS is caused by elevated intracranial pressure secondary to the cephalad fluid shift in zero G is proposed. A mechanism of how the cephalad fluid shift could cause el...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jennings T

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is proposed here that the initial events in gastric carcinogenesis occur at the junction of the oxyntic and antral mucosae. Intestinal metaplasia represents an adaptive counter-response to early neoplastic change at this site. Chronic gastric ulceration may arise due to the elimination of overtly dedifferentiated c...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Seery JP

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural tibiofemoral joint (TFJ) functions according to the asymmetrical joint surfaces and the rolling-gliding mechanism. In the sagittal section, the human TFG is the tibial plateau on the medial concave side and curved on the lateral convex. With the asymmetrical joint surfaces, the flexion of the knee consists...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wei H,Lu W,Niu S,Tian F,Tian H,Ni Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), a chronic disease with a well-known genetic basis, is highest in Scandinavian and Sardinian populations. The high incidence of IDDM in Scandinavia and Sardinia, which were genetically isolated from the spread of agriculturists in Europe about 8000 years ago,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wendorf MA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shear wave sonoelastography is a valuable additional technique in differentiation between benign and malignant breast lesions. In this paper, a hypothesis of the potential role of this additional ultrasound technique as a very useful tool in differentiation of a medullary breast cancer subtype is proposed. Medullary b...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Biondić Špoljar I,Ivanac G,Radović N,Divjak E,Brkljačić B

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00