Stress-induced suppression of the cellular immune reactions: on the neuroendocrine control of the immune system.

abstract：:Extracellular nucleotide-induced stimulation and activation of peripheral blood leukocytes and subsequent degranulation play a critical role in immediate-type hypersensitivity reaction and other inflammatory diseases. The extracellular nucleotides stimulate a P2Y receptor(s) on human PMN with the pharmacological profi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kannan S

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normally, the transport of allergens through the intestinal epithelia to the blood is limited. It is hypothesised that if these compounds arrive in the blood circulation, they must percolate through the epithelial cell layer. Thus, food allergy (and thus atopic eczema) implies an increased intercellular leakage of the...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bongaerts GP,Severijnen RS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auer rods are cytoplasmic inclusions found only in the leukaemic cells of some cases of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The ultrastructure of Auer rods is different in different sub-types of the disease and it is suggested here that this may be a consequence of the Auer rods consisting of different crystalline forms of...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pearson EC

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:Epidemiological studies highlight the negative correlation between vitamin D levels and the incidence of many non-skeletal diseases including inflammatory diseases, cancer, and metabolic and neurological disorders. However, most randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with oral vitamin D supplementation give mixed results...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chabrol T,Wion D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial fraying, splitting and fibrillation of articular cartilage as a consequence of ageing or mechanical injury is not always associated with joint pain. However, similar cartilage lesions accompanied by synovitis and engorgement of the subchondral vasculature generally is; the disorder being known as osteoarth...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ghosh P,Smith M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors support the hypothesis that a causative agent in Parkinson's disease (PD) might be either fungus or bacteria with fungus-like properties - Actinobacteria, and that their spores may serve as 'infectious agents'. Updated research and the epidemiology of PD suggest that the disease might be induced by environ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Berstad K,Berstad JER

更新日期：2017-07-01 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

abstract：:Although once considered by biologists almost exclusively for their toxicity, reactive oxygen (ROS) and nitrogen (RNS) species produced within normal cells under baseline physiological conditions are now appreciated as redox regulators of a wide range of protein functions. Two families of enzymes, the NADPH oxidases (...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Stuart JA,Aibueku O,Bagshaw O,Moradi F

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cachexia is a pathological state characterized by weight loss and protein mobilization during various diseases. Nutritional supplementation or appetite stimulants are unable to restore the loss of lean body mass. Agents interfering with TNF-alpha have not been very successful to date. Only eicosapentaenoic acid was ab...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Drochioiu G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple reports show the efficacious usage of ECT for catatonia in individuals with autism. There are also a few reports showing that ECT improves self-injury in people with and without autism. In this hypothesis, self-injury in autism and other developmental disorders may be an alternate sign of catatonia, and as su...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wachtel LE,Dhossche DM

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Cancer is a tissue that requires a genetic program, possibly involving hundreds of genes, as indicated by studies of differential gene expression performed with microarrays in various types of cancer. Cancer is thus a biological process of considerable precision as described by Schrödinger's equation, and it is not si...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Garcia-Garcia A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major public health problem, which occurs in epidemic proportions. Our understanding of the systems of the brain related to energy balance has increased over the last decade. As a result, drugs most commonly used today in the management of obesity have their primary effect in modulating the balance betwee...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rosmond R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levator ani muscles in women are overloaded by constant supporting abdominal contents, and counteracting rises of abdominal pressure at the level of the urethra. The excessive load leads to a decrease in their type II fibers. This results in stress urinary incontinence due to loss of the fibers responsible for add...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jóźwik M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary animal fat increases the risk of colorectal cancer. A factor in the increased risk is hypothesised to result from the inhibition of isoforms of a colonic epithelial cell enzyme that detoxifies genotoxins, glutathione S-transferase, by one of the major secondary bile acids produced in the colon by fat digestion...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Schneider H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is identified as the uniting principle linking the pathogenesis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and carcinoma. Elevated TNF-alpha initially increases, and then inhibits, the activity of a number of ke...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holden RJ,Pakula IS,Mooney PA

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis (RAS) is the most common ulcerative diseases of oral mucosa affecting an estimate of 20% of the world's population. Majority of the people affected by RAS are under 30 years of age. RAS is located on the lining (non-keratinized) oral mucosa, i.e. buccal mucosa, lateral side of the tongue,...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pärssinen M,Jäsberg H,Mikkonen JJW,Kullaa AM

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Intra-peritoneal adhesions ensuing from surgery or infection may lead to chronic pelvic pain, bowel obstruction, infertility and additional invasive surgery to resolve adhesion-related complications. As a result adhesions are a major clinical, social and economic concern. The cumulative year-on-year direct costs of ad...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sadek K,Macklon N,Bruce K,Cagampang F,Cheong Y

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin, today, is an established drug in the regime for the prevention of myocardial infarction, especially in high-risk groups. This use of aspirin has given it a new lease of life in its tenth decade of clinical use. Aspirin is probably the oldest synthetic drug in the Pharmacopoeias today; thus one would have imag...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ghooi RB,Thatte SM,Joshi PS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidences suggest a link between normal tension glaucoma (NTG) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Both of them are progressive neurodegenerative disorders. Recently researches provide a clue that optineurin may be a new common underlying risk factor involved in NTG and AD. OPTINEURIN (OPTN) gene coding for "optineu...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu YH,Tian T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a novel technique of non-invasive brain stimulation which has been used to treat several neuropsychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder, chronic pain and epilepsy. Recent studies have shown that the therapeutic effects of rTMS are associated with pla...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brunoni AR,Boggio PS,Fregni F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemo- and radio-resistant cancer cells within solid tumors undermine the effectiveness of these approaches to achieving oncolysis. These resistant cells and clusters of cells typically thrive at low oxygen tensions and are reliant on anaerobic metabolic pathways that churn out lactate. This hypoxic state is one that ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Payne AG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost 70 years, essential fatty acid deficiency has been known to be associated with skin disorders, vessel abnormalities, and increased tumorigenesis. However, the underlying molecular and cellular mechanism is largely unknown. Recently, it has been reported that essential fatty acids regulate cell adhesion by m...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jiang WG,Eynard AR,Mansel RE

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This thesis explores the activation of chemicals in metabolic systems from the viewpoint that this activation is under the control of elements of the space-sea in which the chemicals are immersed. Themselves inert, the chemicals are theorised to exploit a force or action issuing from space (fluctuation) and characteri...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reid BL,Bourke C

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been uncovered that expansion of trinucleotide repeats in the human genome are causing a variety of genetic diseases. They are also identified in other loci that are not clearly related to particular diseases, which indicates such repeat expansion is one of the general forms of evolution occurring throughout th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kubota S

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) is one of the subgroups of schizophrenia of which little is known with regard to its optimal mechanism. Treatment response, either as full remission of symptoms or prediction by biomarker, is important in psychiatry. We have proposed a model that integrates dopaminergic and glut...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Huang LC,Lin SH,Tseng HH,Chen KC,Yang YK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S-oxidation of S-carboxymethyl-l-cysteine has been reported previously to be a biomarker of disease susceptibility in Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In this investigation, the original observations have been confirmed with the incidence of the poor metaboliser phenotype (no urinary recovery...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Steventon GB,Mitchell SC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00