title: [Unitary strategy of cancerous cells: hydrocarbon metabolism (1)].
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-reductionistic approach, is not and it is not likely that it will 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 unitive 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 unifyng comprehension through and 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*; D006801:Humans; D006838:Hydrocarbons / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D011522:Protons
chemical_list: D006838:Hydrocarbons; D011522:Protons
vernacular_title: Estrategia unitiva de las células cancerosas: metabolismo hidrocarbonado (primera de tres partes).