title: [The unitary strategy of cancer cells: the hydrogen ion as a multidimensional unitary factor and carbohydrate metabolism (2)].
abstract: A systematic outlook of metabolism regarding the strategy followed by cancer cells is necessary in order to understand the thermodynamic advantages of these cells and the difficulty found in the treatment of certain malignant diseases. These features show that the present-day vision, the biochemical-analytical-fragmentary-reduccionistic approach, is not and it is not likely that it wil never be sufficient. Thus, a new paradigm of a different dimension but a the same time complementary to the previous and actual one seems necessary. Therefore, a higher and more comprehensive and outreaching vision, transbiochemical and metaenzymatic, one ecologically and macro and microenvironmentally oriented and finally synthetic and unitary one, appears mandatory. The dynamics of the hydrogen ion as applied to biological processes seems to be able to offer the opportunity to arrive to such kind of unifying comprehension through an integrated perceptive model at multiple levels of biological, biomedical and biophysical understanding.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Médica, Clínica La Esperanza, Vitoria.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harguindey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000378:metabolism*; D006019:Glycolysis; D006801:Humans; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism; D010085:Oxidative Phosphorylation; D010101:Oxygen Consumption
chemical_list: D006859:Hydrogen
vernacular_title: Estrategia unitiva de las células cancerosas: ión de hidrógeno como factor unitario multidimensional y metabolismo hidrocarbonado (segunda de tres partes).