The Continuous Relative Deficiency of Intracellular Potassium Is a Core Mechanism for the Occurrence and Metastasis of Tumor Cancer Cells — Oak Academic Publishing
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The Continuous Relative Deficiency of Intracellular Potassium Is a Core Mechanism for the Occurrence and Metastasis of Tumor Cancer Cells
Wuhan Institute for Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, China
1 Wuhan Institute for Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, China
The core mechanism for occurrence of tumor cancer cells is related to the continuous relative deficiency of potassium ions in the cells of organs and tissues, which results in embryonic like proliferation and differentiation in the affected cells. The purpose of the metastasis of cancer cells is to obtain and utilize the potassium resources in other organs in body. However, if the overall potassium storage in body is obviously insufficient, the metastatic cancer cells still fail to achieve the purpose of obtaining enough potassium and turn into normal cells, further proliferation and differentiation of cancer cells will continue, and finally will lead to functional decline in the organs and tissues affected or death. Therefore, the key means to prevent and treat tumors and cancers is to ensure the normal and balanced potassium ions in cells in various organs and tissues, so as to avoid the formation of tumors and cancer cells caused by obvious deficiency of potassium ions.
KeywordsPotassium IonsRelative Deficiency of Potassium IonsNa <sup>+ </sup>K <sup>+ </sup>-ATPaseTumor Cancer CellsMetastasis of Cancer Cells
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