The bioelectronic connectional system (BCS): a therapeutic target for non ionizing radiation.
Among cells and extracellular matrix have been demonstrated reciprocal interactions of oriented morphogenesis. As collagen fibers of the matrix, keratin filaments of desmosomes and the cytoskeleton elements are all piezoelectric substances, with particular biophysical characters, it is possible that these three classes of biostructures are the morphological expressions of a large and unitary cooperative system for coherent communication among cells, by means of piezoelectric interactions and photon/phonon transduction of electromagnetic signals, both endogenous and exogenous. The Author has proposed in 1989 to classify this morphofunctional complex as a bioelectronic connectional system (BCS), in which connective tissue is largely included, but the functions of which go well beyond its classical mechanical ones. The hypothesis is consistent both with the model of Welch and Berry (protonic energy continuum) and with the concept of bioplasma (Inyushin, Sedlak et al.). Physiology and pathology of BCS could also work as a starting point for experimental research aiming at inducing order in biostructures by means of non ionizing radiation.
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Oncologic Radiotherapy Service, Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
D002450:Cell Communication / Q000502:physiology*; D004594:Electrophysiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011840:Radiation, Nonionizing; D011878:Radiotherapy