Catch 22 in the NIH peer review system.

abstract：:Recently, a theory has been postulated that suggests that vital enzymes in ingested food interact synergistically with enzymes within the human body and more specifically with enzymes in the digestive tract. Alterations in food enzymes induced by bulk processing including heating and irradiation and also the addition ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Prochaska LJ,Piekutowski WV

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF-I acts on vascular endothelium to activate nitric oxide synthase, thereby promoting vascular health; there is reason to believe that this protection is especially crucial to the cerebral vasculature, helping to ward off thrombotic strokes. IGF-I may also promote the structural integrity of cerebral arteries, there...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCarty MF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is one of the mostly seen neurological disease. It affects to nervous system and hinders people's vital activities. The majority of Parkinson's patients lose their ability to speak, write and balance. Many machine learning methods have been proposed to automatically diagnose Parkinson's disease usi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yaman O,Ertam F,Tuncer T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of intra-abdominal adhesions is explained by hydrolysis of the peritoneal phospholipid layer caused by phospholipase A2 activity. This view could unify the pre-existing hypotheses that intra-abdominal adhesions are due to ischemia or increased plasminogen activator activity. New therapeutic approaches are...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Snoj M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explain why subjects vary in body fat content despite similar nutrient intake and physical activity, a hypothesis is proposed invoking individual variability in the potentially vast quantities of energy utilizable for such biomechanical functions as cellular motility processes, and for protein mobility. The collect...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Roncari DA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pellagra is a curable dietary illness that unchecked leads to dementia, diarrhoea, dermatitis and death due to lack of the precursors for NAD(H). In addition it caused a wide range of monosyndromic degenerative and functional neurological disorders as well as profound developmental, premature aging and metabolic syndr...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Williams AC,Ramsden DB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone grafting uses a wide range of materials derived mainly from exogenous sources. Autogenous teeth are often used fresh or fixed with alcohol for later use. Proposed here is a method of using cryogenically preserved autogenous extracted teeth, which could be macerated after thawing. This method avoids the possibilit...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Touyz LZ,Afrashtehfar KI

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ever since antimicrobial therapy was introduced, two phenomenons have been observed: drug resistance and host toxicity. Mutation(s) in microbes leads to the earlier, while off target effects of therapy cause the latter. Neither of these problems have yet to be resolved. All Microbes express specific antigens, against ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Singla M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis B infection leads to various profound pathological processes in liver metabolism. Some biochemical alterations detectable by blood analysis are currently used for a preliminary evaluation of the infection. Based on existing data we present here evidence that non-protein amino acid L-homoserine is a patho...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gazarian KG,Gening LV,Gazarian TG

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors sought to establish whether maternal dietary methanol during pregnancy was a factor in the etiology of autism spectrum disorders. A seven item questionnaire was given to women who had given birth to at least one child after 1984. The subjects were solicited from a large primary care practice and several in...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Walton RG,Monte WC

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:The type of treatment that most psychiatric disturbances receive at present is a mixture of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, following the principle that mental functions are the result of the activities of brain machinery subsequent to the interaction between individuals and their external environment. We now know ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Galzigna L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is defined as the process of ''programmed cell death'' (PCD), during which many cells simultaneously die from within along a very orderly pattern. PCD is as intrinsic for cells as mitosis and is involved in both degenerative and developmental processes of organs and organisms. The pattern of apoptotic cell d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bongaerts GP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19), a pandemia emerged recently, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The receptor for corona virus and influenza A is the mucosal cell membrane protein angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which is abundant on the membrane of alveolar cells and ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Niv Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic due to infection with SARS-CoV-2 has led to the death of thousands of adults worldwide. It is now clear that the hyper-inflammatory response triggered by SARS-CoV-2 plays a major role in disease severity and lethality of the infection. Macrophages are innate immune cells th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pagliaro P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intractable epilepsy has always posed a challenge to management; conventional, surgical and alternative techniques available so far (e.g., vagal nerve stimulation, i.e. VNS). The author has attempted to search for a novel alternative (drug-regime) approach to its management to minimise any invasive technique or surger...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jaseja H

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pars tuberalis is a distinct subdivision of the pituitary gland but its function remains poorly understood. Suprasellar tumors in this pars tuberalis region are frequently accompanied by hyperprolactinemia. As these tumors do not immunoreact for any of the established pituitary hormones, they are classified as non...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Skinner DC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the literature shows that x-ray induced lung adenomas in mice, breast adenomas in rats and thyroid adenomas in rats show the same approximate dependence for number of tumors vs dose. It is hypothesized that these benign tumors are due to cell proliferation. The controls of the G1 stage of the cell cycle ha...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rosen P

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomized clinical trials comparing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by surgery with initial surgery in cervical cancer reported conflicting results. We provided a hypothesis explaining the different outcomes between trials. NAC was reported to make a lymph node metastasis smaller. Smaller tumors are hard to d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kim K,Kim MJ,Chung HH,Choi SC,Ryu SY,Kim JW,Park NH,Song YS,Kang SB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) a neurodegenerative disorder of widely distributed cortical networks evolves over years while A beta (Aβ) oligomer neurotoxicity occurs within seconds to minutes. This disparity combined with disappointing outcomes of anti-amyloid clinical trials challenges the centrality of Aβ as principal me...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Engel PA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the lymphatic system by Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria is the most common cause of elephantiasis, a disease that affects over 100 million people. The nightly release of microfilaria into the circulation coincides with the feeding activity of its mosquito vector, a synchronization that is presumably an ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sack RL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author presents evidence from published papers of research done by numerous investigators that Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease, that the target tissue is the myelin sheath which covers the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord, that Myelin Basic Protein (MBP) is the antigen or one of the antig...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eidinoff H

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Music is ubiquitous. Yet, its biological relevance is still an ongoing debate. Supporting the view that music had an ancestral role in courtship displays, a pilot study presented here provides preliminary evidence on the link between music and sexual selection. The underlying hypothesis is based on the fact that the s...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Miani A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that develops after exposure to trauma. Symptoms include persistent reexperiencing, persistent avoidance, persistent numbing, and persistent hyperarousal. Subsequent to trauma exposure, the onset of symptoms of an acute stress reaction can typically dev...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wallace J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some genes such as those for histones and RNAs are conserved unchanged through much of evolution and have numerous tandem repeat copies in the genome. It is proposed that as yet undetected 'polystrand' enzymes use such multiple copies as a means of conserving their sequence by comparing the copies and eliminating erro...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Frei JV

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of reentry as the most important element in a hypothesis for consciousness proposed by Edelman and Tononi is reviewed. Reentry, is a process of ongoing parallel and recursive signalling between separate neuronal groups along parallel reciprocally fibers that link these groups anatomically. Reentry alters t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mellerup E,Kristensen F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercritical carbon dioxide (CO(2)) possesses germicide (bactericide and sporicide) effect. Despite of the fact, that this effect is used in industrial sterilization processes, the sterilization mechanism at molecular level is unclear. Our hypotheses can provide a molecular-biological explanation for the phenomenon. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： András CD,Csajági C,Orbán CK,Albert C,Abrahám B,Miklóssy I

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with multiple organs involved. Kidney damage is common among SLE patients. In lupus nephritis, extracellular DNA accumulation from necrosis cells and activated cells is perceived as initial step of inflammation. The up-regulated type I IFN is one pivotal cyto...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zheng L,Zhang H,Tang Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exact nature of the mechanism that triggers initiation of chromosome replication in the best understood of all organisms, Escherichia coli, remains mysterious. Here, I suggest that this mechanism evolved in response to the problems that arise if chromosome replication does not occur. E. coli is now known to be hig...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Norris V

更新日期：2011-05-01 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