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English Sweating Sickness

A clinical condition characterized by fever and profuse sweating and associated with high mortality. It occurred in epidemic form five times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England, first in 1485 and last in 1551, specially during the summer and early autumn, attacking the relatively affluent adult male population. The etiology was unknown.

Synonyms(3)

Synonym
English Sweating Sickness
Sweating Sickness
Sudor Anglicus

Research

Studies (4)

TimeframeStudies, This Condition (%)All Conditions %
pre-19902 (50.00)23.3326
1990's0 (0.00)12.5806
2000's0 (0.00)18.1394
2010's2 (50.00)28.8240
2020's0 (0.00)9.53
DrugIndicatedRelationship StrengthStudiesTrials
iodine0low10
phosphorus0medium11

Protein Targets (19)

ProteinPotency MeasurementsInhibition MeasurementsActivation MeasurementsDrugs
Luciferase1001
acetylcholinesterase1001
hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha subunit1001
RAR-related orphan receptor gamma1001
progesterone receptor1001
retinoic acid nuclear receptor alpha variant 11001
retinoid X nuclear receptor alpha1001
estrogen-related nuclear receptor alpha1001
pregnane X nuclear receptor1001
estrogen nuclear receptor alpha1001
peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma1001
aryl hydrocarbon receptor1001
cytochrome P450, family 19, subfamily A, polypeptide 1, isoform CRA_a1001
activating transcription factor 61001
v-jun sarcoma virus 17 oncogene homolog (avian)1001
histone deacetylase 9 isoform 31001
nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 isoform 11001
Voltage-dependent calcium channel gamma-2 subunit1001
Glutamate receptor 21001
[prepared from compound, protein, and bioassay information from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]