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An Innovative Approach to Understanding and Treating Cancer: Targeting pH
From Etiopathogenesis to New Therapeutic Avenues
Describes the basis of the pH paradigm in cancer cells and tissues, and proposes treatments that can be incorporated in oncological practice
Tomas Koltai (Author), Stephan J. Reshkin (Author), Salvador Harguindey (Author)
9780128190593
Paperback, published 17 January 2020
574 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.5 cm, 1.06 kg
"This book is a useful and thought-provoking review of some unique aspects of cancer growth and metabolism. It is easy to follow and has many associated illustrations, tables, and text structures that aid in the review. It provides a good foundation to further investigate pH effects on malignancy, though the text would benefit from further updates and revision as these rapidly growing research fields progress." --Doody
An Innovative Approach to Studying and Treating Cancer: Targeting pH describes one of the few characteristics of cancer that is not shared by normal tissues: the reversal or inversion of the pH gradient when intracellular pH becomes alkaline and extracellular pH becomes acid. This is now recognized as one of the most selective and differential hallmarks of all cancer cells and tissues, being the opposite of the condition found in normal tissues and a potential target in order to achieve either a stable disease or even regression with no toxicity. The book discusses topics such as lactic acid and its transport system in the pH paradigm, mechanisms to decrease extra cellular pH and increase intracellular pH, NHE-1 activity in cancer, carbonic anhydrases, vacuolar ATPase proton pump, and the sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter system. Additionally, it discusses complementary pharmacological interventions, cellular acidification and extracellular alkalinization as a new and integral approach to cancer treatment.
PART 1: Metabolism and pH physiopathology of cancer1. Introduction2. Cancer metabolism3. The pH alterations in cancer: causes and consequences4. Lactic acid and its transport system5. The sodium hydrogen exchanger6. The voltage gated sodium channels7. Carbonic anhydrases8. Proton pumps9. The sodium/bicarbonate co-transporter10. Aquaporins11. Invadopodia and the migration/invasion process12. The Sp1 transcription factor PART 1: Therapeutics13. Pharmacological interventions – Part I14. Pharmacological interventions – Part II15. Pharmacological interventions – Part III16. Pharmacological interventions – Part IV17. Therapeutics: the scheme18. Therapeutics: ancillary treatments19. Preventing metastasis20. Proton inhibitors in pets’ cancer21. pH-related nanoparticles in cancer treatment22. Conclusions and future perspectives
Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA]
