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In the end of the second decade of 20th century, Warburg showed how cancer cells present a fermentative respiration process, related to a metabolic injury. Here, we develop an analysis of the cell process based on its heat outflow, in order to control cancer progression. Engineering thermodynamics represent a powerful approach to develop this analysis and we introduce its methods to biosystems, in relation to heat outflow for its control. Cells regulate their metabolisms by energy and ion flows, and the heat flux is controlled by the convective interaction with their environment. We introduce the characteristic frequency of a biosystem, its biothermodynamic characteristic frequency, which results to be evaluated by a classical heat transfer approach. Resonance forces natural behaviours of systems, and, here, we introduce it in order to control the fluxes through the cancer membrane, and to control of the cellular metabolic processes, and, consequently, the energy available to cancer, for its growth. The result obtained in some experiments is that the cancer growth rate can be reduced. |
