The etiology and possible treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia.

abstract：:Pseudohypoaldosteronism Type I may occur due to several different causes. The authors recommend distinguishing between effector and receptor disorders with regard to the diverse mode of inheritance and prognosis. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bayer M,Kutílek S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors hypothesize that the impairment of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa depends (at least in part) on the increased sensitivity to endogenous melatonin. The hypothesis is based mainly on the following facts: (1) melatonin is well known to exert an inhibitory effec...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pawlikowski M,Zarzycki J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many theories try to explain the existence and function of paranasal sinuses. This paper is an attempt to correlate process of paranasal sinus development in human with bone pneumatization processes in animals. It is here proposed that this mechanism starts in utero and continues after birth. During endochondral devel...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kurbel S,Radić R,Kristek B,Ivezić Z,Selthofer R,Kotromanović Z

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The few existing hypotheses for the function of the human hymen are weak. These are briefly reviewed, and a new hypothesis is proposed. We suggest that the appearance of the juvenile human hymen is based on 'premature' birth, following which infant helplessness and a subsequent advantage for vaginal protection from ex...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hobday AJ,Haury L,Dayton PK

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously presented a new Systemic Evolutionary Theory of Cancer (SETOC) based on the failure of proper endosymbiosis in eukaryotic cells. Here, we propose that the progressive uncoupling of two endosymbiotic subsystems (information and energy) inside the cell, as a consequence of long-term injuries, gives ri...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mazzocca A,Ferraro G,Misciagna G,Fais S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug biotransformations are controlled in the body by tissue-differentiated choice of a selection of the induced and constitutive 57 isoforms of the human cytochromes P450 (CYP). CYP are the mixed function oxidase enzyme family (EC 1.14.14.1: mono-oxygenases that contain iron-dependent protohaematin IX). Many of the m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wiseman A

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：:A primary goal in antimicrobial drug design is to find molecules which inhibit key proteins in bacteria without affecting mammalian homologues. To this aim, structural differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic enzyme proteins involved in life processes are widely exploited. The membrane-bound enzyme complex ATP s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nesci S,Ventrella V,Trombetti F,Pirini M,Pagliarani A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral glucosamine has anti-inflammatory activity in rodents, and anecdotal evidence suggests that it may be clinically useful in inflammatory bowel disorders. A possible explanation is that supplemental glucosamine increases production of heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans by the vascular endothelium, thereby improving...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that blood-borne metabolites of gut microbiota, such as trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) are involved in the aetiology of cardiovascular diseases and may serve as markers of cardiovascular risk. To enter the bloodstream the microbiota-derived molecules need to pass the gut-blood barrier (GBB). The ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ufnal M,Pham K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dream periods during sleep have been observed in most mammals as early in history as antiquity. Sleep researchers at the University of Chicago, discovered the phase of rapid eye movement (REM) during sleep and connected it to the dream period. During this period, called the REM phase (after the American terminology), ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gonfalone AA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous medical conditions present with acute and severe autonomic and muscular overactivity. These syndromes include Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Serotonin Syndrome, Dysautonomia (or paroxysmal sympathetic storms) following acquired brain injury, Autonomic Dysreflexia, Parkinsonian-Hyperpyrexia Syndrome, Malignan...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Baguley IJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Hypotheses generally conform to paradigms which, over time, change, usually tardily, after they have become increasingly difficult to sustain under the impact of non-conforming evidence and alternative hypotheses, but more important, when they no longer are comfortably ensconced in the surrounding social-economic-poli...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kaellis E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism is a major and world-wide health problem. A characteristic pattern of congenital defects, known as the fetal alcohol syndrome, has been detected in the offspring of mothers who are chronic alcoholics. The mechanism underlying the teratogenic effects of ethanol is not known. An important hypothesis is that e...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Seyoum GG,Persaud TV

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the physical properties of magnetic fluids a new technique of whole-body hyperthermia is proposed. Subdomain dextran stabilized magnetite particles injected into the blood-stream can be efficiently heated using an external high-frequency magnetic field, which allows rapid and controllable delivery of h...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Babincová M,Sourivong P,Leszczynska D,Babinec P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present analysis addresses the question of how it has been possible for academic medicine to grow and lose its creative productivity at the same time. A mathematical model is developed to simulate the mechanisms that govern growth of medical systems over time. Time-dependent growth of system size increases the occ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sonnenberg A

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease of uncertain etiology. In MS, neurodegeneration is thought to be secondary to autoimmune-mediated damage. However, no cohesive explanation yet exists as to how environmental factors interact to induce a neurodegenerative autoimmune response. Insufficient sunlight ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Hayes CE,Donald Acheson E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1960, the incidence of melanoma has increased dramatically in Caucasians worldwide, and during the past decade has risen at a rate of 6% a year in the USA. A hypothesis regarding this increased incidence suggests that the prevalent use of antibacterial soaps that contain photosensitizing compounds may be a risk ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Arbesman H

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is caused by a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion within the coding region of the ataxin-2 gene. Affected individuals typically have between 34 and 57 CAG repeats. Signs of the disorder generally begin in adulthood and include progressive ataxia, dysarthria, tremor, hyporeflexia, a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bauer PO,Zumrova A,Matoska V,Mitsui K,Goetz P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is defined as a multifocal, monophasic, demyelinating, and inflammatory disease involving the central nervous system. It typically begins within 6 weeks of an antigenic challenge such as infection or immunization. Perivenous inflammation, edema and demyelination are the path...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sabayan B,Zolghadrasli A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mainstream researchers explain the etiology of SIDS with the cardiorespiratory paradigm. This has been the focus of intense study for many decades without providing consistent supporting data to link CNS findings to epidemiological risk factors or to the usual clinicopathological findings. Despite this, and the appare...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Goldwater PN

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most COVID-19 infected individuals present with mild flu-like symptoms; however, 5-10% of cases suffer from life-threatening pneumonia and respiratory failure. The pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 and its pathology of associated acute lung injury (ALI), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, coagulopathy and mu...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yaqinuddin A,Kashir J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limb remote ischaemia postconditioning (RIPOC), a newly conceived idea of applying brief limb ischaemic stimulus after onset of the myocardial ischaemia but prior to the reperfusion, can offer the possibility of applying this cardioprotective strategy to the patients with acute myocardial infraction. Although incr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Xu YC,Xue FS,Liao X,Xiong J,Yang QY,Wang WL,Zhang YM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This hypothesis named Salerian Addictive Potential (SAP) suggests that the addictive potency of any substance may be calculated with an algebraic equation of A=E/T(max)xt(1/2), where A is the addictive potency, E represents the euphoric potency, T(max) is the time to reach peak plasma concentration, and t(1/2) is the ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Salerian AJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that combination of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) could be useful as the basis for targeted cancer therapy involving antibody-, polymer-, or gene-directed approaches. By circulating IAA in human body, the cells labeled with HRP could be selectively killed since cytoto...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kawano T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper proposes a mechanism for regulating nucleo-cytoplasmic exchanges of macromolecules via NPC in vertebrates. Bending of NE toward the transport vector significantly contributes to the dynamics. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Matioli GT

更新日期：2000-01-01 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