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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Disturbed Coherence: Gate to Cancer.

Jiří Pokorný, Jan Pokorný, Alberto Foletti, Jitka Kobilková, Jan Vrba, Jan Vrba

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In one paragraph

Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jiří PokornýInstitute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Chaberská 57, 182 51 Prague 8, Czech Republic. pokorny@ufe.cz.
Jan PokornýInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic. pokorny@fzu.cz.
Alberto FolettiInstitute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council-CNR, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Rome 00133, Italy. contact@albertofoletti.ch.
Jitka KobilkováDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Apolinářská 18, 128 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic. jitka.kobilkova@centrum.cz.
Jan VrbaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic. vrba@fel.cvut.cz.
Jan VrbaFaculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Kladno, Sitná Square 3105, 272 01 Kladno, Czech Republic. jan.vrba@fbmi.cvut.cz.
Czech Academy of Sciences · CZCzech Technical University in Prague · CZCharles University · CZIstituto di Farmacologia Traslazionale · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Continuous energy supply, a necessary condition for life, excites a state far from thermodynamic equilibrium, in particular coherent electric polar vibrations depending on water ordering in the cell. Disturbances in oxidative metabolism and coherence are a central issue in cancer development. Oxidative metabolism may be impaired by decreased pyruvate transfer to the mitochondrial matrix, either by parasitic consumption and/or mitochondrial dysfunction. This can in turn lead to disturbance in water molecules' ordering, diminished power, and coherence of the electromagnetic field. In tumors with the Warburg (reverse Warburg) effect, mitochondrial dysfunction affects cancer cells (fibroblasts associated with cancer cells), and the electromagnetic field generated by microtubules in cancer cells has low power (high power due to transport of energy-rich metabolites from fibroblasts), disturbed coherence, and a shifted frequency spectrum according to changed power. Therapeutic strategies restoring mitochondrial function may trigger apoptosis in treated cells; yet, before this step is performed, induction (inhibition) of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases (phosphatases) may restore the cancer state. In tumor tissues with the reverse Warburg effect, Caveolin-1 levels should be restored and the transport of energy-rich metabolites interrupted to cancer cells. In both cancer phenotypes, achieving permanently reversed mitochondrial dysfunction with metabolic-modulating drugs may be an effective, specific anti-cancer strategy.

Indexed as

cancer biophysicsdisturbed coherenceLDH virusmicrotubule oscillationsmitochondrial dysfunctionwater ordering

Identifiers

PMID26437417
PMCPMC4695805
OpenAlexW2151679421

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