Stable and unstable genes: distribution among species and range of mutations.

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：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：:Crossed cerebellar diaschisis (CCD) refers to transneuronal degeneration of the corticopontocerebellar pathway, resulting in atrophy of cerebellum contralateral to supratentorial pathology. CCD is traditionally diagnosed on nuclear medicine studies. Our aim is to apply a biexponential diffusion model, composed of intr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kohannim O,Huang JC,Hathout GM

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid peroxidation has been shown to both enhance carcinogenesis and to have an anticarcinogenic effect. This paradox is of great relevance to the fields of free radical biology, biochemistry, pathology, nutrition and oncology among others and needs to be addressed. A proper understanding of this issue can be a key to...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： González MJ,Riordan NH

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:What causes cancer? To date, this question is left with no answer. The scientific community keeps defining cancer as a proliferation of cells in an uncontrolled and uncontrollable manner. The hypothesis developed here through an understanding of the cancer cell's behaviour led to its re-definition, providing answers t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Majerus MA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Styrene is one of the most important plastic monomers worldwide. Styrene-7,8-oxide (SO), the major in-vivo metabolite of styrene, is classified as probably carcinogenic to humans and carcinogenic in rodents. Biological monitoring of exposure to styrene is usually carried out by determination of mandelic acid and pheny...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Marczynski B,Peel M,Baur X

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of malignant tumors, including anaerobic metabolism and metastases to lung, liver, bone and brain, may permit the enhanced survival of edited parts of the genome during periods of rapid environmental change. Carcinogenesis may be partially analogous to fossilization. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Fischer K

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:For some patients with radiculopathy a source of nerve root compression cannot be identified despite positive electromyography (EMG) evidence. This discrepancy hampers the effective clinical management for these individuals. Although it has been well-established that tissues in the cervical spine move in a three-dimen...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jaumard NV,Udupa JK,Siegler S,Schuster JM,Hilibrand AS,Hirsch BE,Borthakur A,Winkelstein BA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomes, lysosomal enzymes and oxidant processes are known to be involved in cancer processes. The prostasomes contain proteins and enzymes that would constitute pathways for the hydrolysis of proteins and peptides. However, integrated biochemical and cell biology studies are necessary to understand how lysosomal en...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Tappel A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP) is referred to as axonal neuropathy after an adequate workup fails to determine a cause. A subgroup of patients with CIAP has impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). These patients have been considered by some investigators to have a neuropathy as a result of IGT and/or metabo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rezania K,Soliven B,Rezai KA,Roos RP

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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

abstract：:Ischaemic stroke ranks among the most important causes of death and disability in developed countries. Abnormal lipid metabolism is among the several factors that have a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We hypothesize that the decreased resistance of low-density lipoproteins against oxidative stress is an ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bereczki D,Balla G,Csiba L,Jeney V,Valikovics A,Magyar T,Balla J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p27(Kip1) (here after referred to as p27) is a member of a family of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors that control cell cycle. There is a considerable evidence that p27 plays a pivotal role in multiple foundational cellular processes, including cell proliferation, cell differentiation, and apoptosis. A large number ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Guan X,Chen L,Wang J

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Almost all solid tumors consist of aneuploid cells with highly abnormal chromosome numbers. Such cancer cells could very well originate from chromosome missegregation which is a disturbingly common phenomenon, happening in 0.01 to 4 percent of cell divisions. Missegregated cells are aneuploid, typically lacking a chro...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Engvild KC

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans vary in the gene that encodes for Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex (VKORC1). Recent research has documented the protective effect of Vitamin K on neural cells and its role in maintaining normal neural development. Of interest, specific neural effects of Vitamin K overlap with key brain development aberration...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： DeSoto MC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies have shown that moderately intense physical activity effectively treats various types of depression. Beneficial effects have been reported in the acute phase of the disease as well as in a long-term perspective. In addition, epidemiological studies have shown that inactivity increases the risk of depr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Stenman E,Lilja A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread around the world. At this time, there is no vaccine that can help people prevent the spread of coronavirus. We are proposing amantadine as a drug that can be used to mitigate the effects of the virus. It is demonstrated by docking models how amantadine can exert its action on Coronaviru...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Abreu GEA,Aguilar MEH,Covarrubias DH,Durán FR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical consideration of the relationship between plasma concentrations of calcium and parathyroid hormone suggests that the reported negative correlations between these variables in normal subjects and in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism, and the positive correlation in patients with primary hyperpar...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Walton RJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion protein, known as Prp(c), is a GPI-anchored membrane bound glycoprotein ubiquitously expressed in the body. To date, the precise nature of its physiological role remains a mystery. The prion protein's presence on neurons and immune effector cells suggests a dual neurological and immunological function. Some cons...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McBride SM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The constant level of various proteins including albumin and cellular components in intravascular pool in vivo is strictly controlled by an unknown homeostatic mechanism, although there are fluctuations seen in pathologic conditions. Because the majority of the IgG in the serum is regarded as self-reactive natural aut...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Lee KY,Lee JS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP sensitive (K(+)(ATP)) potassium cardiac channels are recruited when ATP levels are low as in ischemic injury and acute trauma. Such activation results in ECG-ST elevation and cardiac arrhythmias. K(+)(ATP) channel recruitment may be blocked by the sulfonylurea glibenclamide, permitting a wide variety of animal exp...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hoffman I,Saltzman B

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general theory of neural circuitry is proposed wherein neural impulses travel in a continuous circuit from the brain to the extremities and back to the brain. At the extremities the impulse may be modified by the environment there. At the spinal column the return signal is compared with the outgoing signal and the a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kingham DJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyslipidemia is a common pathology throughout the industrialized world, and HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) are often administered to treat elevated lipid levels. Substantial concern has been raised regarding the aggressive clinical lowering of cholesterol, particularly in light of a growing body of research li...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gendle MH

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:This article proposes a series of experiments to determine if cows and sheep could be used as animal models for HIV-1, the AIDS virus. To justify this effort, a substantial case is presented that HIV-1 is a natural recombinant of Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV) and Visna Virus. This natural recombinant may have been inadv...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Siefkes D

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00