The Mystery behind “Yawning”: A Physiological Insight

The mystery of yawning in physiology and disease. Foreward.

A Conjecture as to the Physiological Origins of Yawning

© 2017 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Dear Sir, In reference to the origins of yawning, last addressed in these pages by Gupta and Mittal,[1] there are recent discoveries characterizing the lymphatic system of the brain and calvarium which may be relevant. Lymphatic channels from the brain had previously been identified only in ...

Mystery behind mysterious disease: far from unraveled!

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 204 VOLUME 41FEBRUARY 17, 2004 from about 1968. The very reasons for multiple doses of OPV and the need for pulse immunization are the occurrence of vaccine failure of three doses of OPV. Dr Paul is not on firm grounds when he declares that polio cannot be eradicated without first discovering the reason(s) for vaccine failure. Vaccine failure can be overcome by increasing the ...

The Influenza-A mystery: Insight from Bioinformatics resources and analysis

Sir, Bioinformatics is a tool which can excavate any information, one wants to obtain. I found its implication in handling an emerging and highly pathogenic strain of Influenza virus, H5N1. The first influenza pandemic was happened in 1918 “Spanish flu” followed by Asian flu in 1957 caused by H2N2. Moreover, one million deaths were reported in Hong Kong due to H3N2 outbreak during 1968. The ant...

The Physiological Mechanism behind the Talk Test

The Talk Test (TT) is a very simple marker of exercise intensity, which has been shown to be a useful surrogate of the ventilatory (VT) and respiratory compensation (RCT) thresholds. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a potential mechanism behind the TT. Healthy, college-aged subjects (n=20) performed a maximal and two sub-maximal cycle ergometer tests. The two submaximal tests were perf...