An experimental proposal for low order laboratory animals’ extension of metabolic life

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Advances in Biological Chemistry, 2013, 3, 536-540 ABC

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An experimental proposal for low order laboratory

animals’ extension of metabolic life

Mario Gosalvez*

Clínica and Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain

Email: [email protected]

Received 6 September 2013; revised 18 October 2013; accepted 1 November 2013

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

ABSTRACT

Essential bibliography, with therein references in-

cluded, is presented owing to the contribution of the

author groups to Mitochondrial Filamentation, which

is a new emerging field of physiological energy me-

tabolism. These studies provide the first seed concept

for trials to extend the metabolic life, for a few days,

in low order laboratory mamma ls killed by electrocu-

tion, as a first type of accidental death. It is proposed,

essentially, to cool out the corpses very soon after

death at 12ºC - 14ºC and take advantage o f the effect

super magnetism to counteract the force of gravity to

install a net recurrent cycle of oxygen consumption

and oxygen production by filamented mitochondria

in all the organism tissues. Once the cause of death

had been corrected adequately, it is possible to try the

reanimation to experience the full life of the corpse

with highly sophisticated methodology.

Keywords: Metabolic Life; Transitory Physiological

Death; Cooling of Corpses; Super Magnetism;

Mitochondrial Filamentation; Clin ical and

Experimental Resuscitation Techniques

1. INTRODUCTION

I would like to draw your attention to a possible tran-

sient state of death. I refer to physiological death, when

the heart stops beating, the blood no longer circulates

and settles and the EEG readings are flat. Depending on

body temperature after death, the duration in a state of

metabolic life will vary and complete reanimation is pos-

sible by means of greater or lesser sophistication in a

highly advanced hospital if the state of death has not

lasted longer than approximately two hours.

I ventured to suggest in Japan in 2008 [1] that we

could extend the duration of metabolic life for those pos-

sible transient corpses for more or less days, as long as

we took into account the wonderful capabilities of fila-

mented cellular mitochondria. We would then be able to

bring back many physiologically dead animals to life for

a few days, or even weeks, although, of course, in such

circumstances, they would suffer a significant loss of

body we ight if more than three weeks in this specia l physi-

ological death cold transitory slow m etabolic period.

We suggest that studies be carried out on laboratory

mammals which, if successful, could possibly be ex-

tended to babies who suffer infant death syndrome. With

some more years elapsing, if it is feasible, we could wi-

den the scope to include adults also with the adequate

legal and insurance safeguards. This could drive medi-

cine on that one step further with medical and surgical

capabilities uniting to vanquish physiological death in a

much greater number of cases than at present. In my

humble opinion for full complex organisms, deep freez-

ing cryogenics cannot afford lasting too longer coming

back to physiological life.

Nature with the different ways of hibernation has

solved the problem of suspending active life in very low

temperature slowing down metabolic activity. As I will

spell out that in the following text, my proposal is just

based on extending the time of metabolic time for as long

could be possible after physiological transitory death.

2. MITOCHONDRIAL FILAMENTATION

AND THE FORCE OF GRAVITY

Our group has contributed to a greater physiological un-

derstanding of mitochondria, the cellular organelles with

double membrane in which cellular respiration takes

place associated with synthesis of adenosine triphosphate

which is the basic unit of energy metabolism.

Using a method of mitochondrial isolation with less

mechanical, thermal and chemical trauma, we discovered,

above all, that when the animal is at rest, that the mito-

chondria are recursively filamented radially in their outer

*Head, Experimental Bioc he mistry (1970- 2010).

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membrane by short filaments 25, 10 and 5 nanometres

thick. In hypoxia, filamented mitochondria produce a

greater amount of oxygen than they use up with bicar-

bonate present. Recent reviews of this emerging field and

its possible future applications are published openly on

line [2-8]. The references there in are sufficient to ex-

plain our expertise in this new field of the physiological

bionergetics.

The net oxygen production by the filamented mito-

chondria is achieved in hypoxia in the presence of a me-

dium which fundamentally mimics the cytoplasm. In

hyperoxia, the oxygen consumption of those mitochon-

dria is much greater than the oxygen produced. Keeping

the oxygen concentration “in vitro”, at the physiological

level, an oscillation between oxygen consumption and

production can be achieved. If this oscillation could be

obtained “in vivo” at 14˚C it would probably lead to the

cellular metabolism being maintained for longer p eriods.

In my present opinion one month could be the limit in

organisms at their normality range in body weight.

We dare to think, perhaps, that by installing in the

laboratory animals, changed into transient corpses using

methods which simulate accidents, (I think first in artifi-

cial electrocution by high voltages), a consumption-

production oscillation of oxygen by filamented mito-

chondria of their tissues, the extension of metabolic life

could be achieved if everything is done right from the

outset at 14˚C.

This could possibly achieve the ex tension of the meta-

bolic life period of the animal corpse for many hours.

After even a few days in that state perhaps a complete

reanimation could be attempted using state-of-the art

clinical methods in the field of anaesthetic resuscitation.

How might that chronic oscillation of oxygen con-

sumption-production b e induced into the tissues of young

rabbits sacrificed by reversible accidents in order to ex-

tend the time which the corpse can be maintained with an

active metabolic rate?

I think that by submitting the animal to very intense

magnetic fields with different polarities, negative or

positive. Or, in other words, by simulating a decrease or

increase in the force of gravity. The simulation of a de-

crease in the force of gravity has already been tried on

rats, by levitating them in the cavity of a super-magnet.

Levitation is one of the things people like most about

super-magnetism. It is based on the simulation of de-

creasing the force of gravity by means of the counterac-

tion by very strong magnetic fields of the force of attrac-

tion of the Earth’s mass on the subject.

A decrease in the force of gravity increases mitochon-

drial filamentation and decreases motor activity. The

opposite occurs when the force of gravity is increased:

motor activity increases and mitochondrial filamentation

decreases. An increase of mitochondrial filamentation

raises oxygen production and a decrease of mitochon-

drial filamentation raises the amount of oxygen con-

sumed. We have observed these phenomena from meas-

urements on filamented mitochondrial on different motor

activities with different estimated values of the vertical

gravity exercised on Madrid. This was published in a

internal report of Spain´s National Centre of Medical and

Surgical research. The reasons for this dependency that

we proposed could be related through a concomitance of

mitochondrial filamentation-defilamentation-recurrent cy-

cles, of all the organism tissues with body number of

movements. This concomitance relationship that we

proposed perhaps would be regulated by the light varia-

tions and other irradiation and magnetic cycles of the

pineal gl a nd.

A negative-positive oscillatory cycle would therefore

have to be installed in the super-magnet, leading to the

simulation of a recurrent, chronic increase and decrease

of the force of gravity on the animal placed in a cold bag

in the cavity in which the desired magnetic changes are

created.

This is now possible in the United States of America,

Japan and Germany, for instance, where the largest su-

per-magnets are found. But only on small mammals;

doubtless the smallest rabb its, recently weaned, would fit

into the largest super-magnet currently available. But, fo r

larger animals, such as a young sheep or a young mare, it

would neither be possible nor practicable to attempt it,

using that method of creating very strong magnetic fields

which are based on th e manufactu ring of huge solenoids.

Now is not the time or indeed the place, to articulate

my thinking on other ways of making strong magnetic

fields with much less bulky equipment capable of simu-

lating changes in the force of gravity in a large cavity.

However, it will suffice just to add that I believe that

different, inexpensive, ways can be tried out qu ite quick-

ly. Specially those based in our in invention of mega-

electric accumulators copying artificially mito- chondria

(generic patent pending) geared to circulate electricity

instead to electric power accumulation.

3. COOLING OF THE TRANSITORY

CORPSE

Following the not irreversible electrocution, as a first

example of “accidental death”, the interior spaces of the

animal corpse would have to be filled with suitable fluids:

the abdominal and pleural cavities, the complete alimen-

tary canal, etc. Then the corpse, duly sutured and shav ed,

would be placed as a liquid block in a liquid bag at 14˚C.

The composition of the internal and external fluids

would be a matter for experts in physiological biochem-

istry, but fo llowing a due trial and error process, with the

correct molecular nutritional and diffusion facilitator

additives, the predominant solids, liquids and gases in

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the makeup of these fluids could be listed sufficiently

accurately, in order to successfully attempt to maintain

the active metabolism at 14˚C.

At that temperature the membranes would not disinte-

grate, the cellular skeleton of contractile proteins, the

cytoskeleton, would be intact and, above all, as long as

enough intercellular oxygen is always present, the hy-

drolytic enzymes for proteins, lipids and carbohydrates

of the cytoplasmic vesicles would not be released. This is

what I think is essentially responsible for the necrosis or

putrification of tissues when there is insufficient oxygen

supply due to a deficiency of the blood circulation desta-

bilizing the membranes of the lysosomes.

4. LIQUID BLOCK ELECTROPHORESIS

The cold bag, with the animal corpse in a liquid block,

would rotate slowly on its longitudinal axis in conso-

nance with the super-magnetic oscillation. This will al-

low the low molecular weight components, with a nega-

tive or positive charge, to alternatively pass through the

membrane pores of the cellular tissues.

This point is also susceptible to trial and error, sup-

plementing it appropriately with membrane stabilizers

and electrophoretic diffusion modulators of one or other

sign. Evidently there would be the limitations, at the be-

ginning of the experimentation, of the size of the cavity

in which the strong magnetic fields are generated. When

we reach a capability to experiment on larger animals

this aspect could be addressed with the utmost perfection,

especially when possible on the tailed primate.

My contribution, as a consultant, in this endeavor,

which in some years’ time could perhaps assume a major

international dimension, would fundamentally be in the

subsequ en t stage: the for mati on in the anima l corpse, in a

liquid block, of a production-consumption oscillation of

oxygen by the mitochondria. I have a great familiarity,

always accompanied by an enormous respect, for those

tiny dancers of biological energy, whether they are naked,

or preferably more or less clothed with contractile fila-

ments.

5. MAGNETIC OSCILLATION AND

INTRACELLULAR OXYGEN

I will try to pull together as concisely as possible what

my knowledge on mitochondria is, now that perhaps the

first stuttering new steps forward are being taken for life

in our society. I would say first of all that our science is

at such an early stage that what we know about fila-

mented mitochondria and their possible concatenation

with all the biological cycles is but a drop in the ocean.

The amplitude of the magnetic oscillatio n needed is in

no way as great as that needed to levitate or squash a rat.

We need a magnetic oscillation which can simulate varia-

tions in vertical gravity on the subject of the experiment,

ranging from the strongest to the weakest gravity force

known for any point on the planet. That is not difficult,

but for large animals, solenoids, huge magnetic coils,

will not be enough.

In addition to their amplitude the wavelength of the

oscillation should be precisely determined. To this end,

we could start with perfused organs, especially the liver

and lungs, at 14˚C, with a perfect monitoring system on

oxygen concentration, carbon dioxide, hydrogen ions,

potassium and sodium, at least both intracellular as well

as extracellular, during the period of oscillation. That

would enable the sequ ential destruction of the samples in

order to determine by electron microscopy the variable

degree of mitochondrial filamentation for each simulated

stimulated or decreased force of gravity. With that in

each organ, passing later to the laboratory animals of

different sizes, the required evaluation could be made of

the possible gravitational “tuning fork”, for the mito-

chondrial concatenation of all the physiological tissues of

the particularly chosen transitorily dead organism in the

experiment. In my humble opinion that concatenating

fork would reside in the “Triad Epiphysis-Hypotha- lam-

ic-Pituitary” possible mitochondrial inter relation system,

When that point has been reached, the temperature

would need to be gradually increased while the magnetic

oscillation as well as the corresponding oscillation of

oxygen production and consumption flattened out, until

reaching, after following all the required steps in order,

the moment to awaken the animal from its deep slumber.

6. REANIMATION

In my modest opinion the critical point at which to begin

to wake up the superior animal, whose most intelligent

behavioral patterns would have been known before its

death, would occur when normal body temperature had

been maintained for 24 hours. On that day the oscillation

of oxygen production-consumption would be more or

less flat, depending on the nature of the experimental

subject. Almost daily weight loss due to the consumption

of endogenous nutrients would be faster owing to the rate

of metabolic activity, close to a temperature of 37˚C, in

superior mammals.

With the oscillation set up correctly, prior to reanima-

tion, the issue, on the one hand, would be in the induc-

tion of sufficient neuroendocrine secretion, especially in

the pineal and hypothalamus and, on the other, in rees-

tablishing heart rate, blood circulation and respiration.

This would first have to be done on the physiologi-

cally dead organism. Due techniques of artificial life

would be applied while stimulating the pineal gland us-

ing an adequate electromagnetic helmet capable of emit-

ting deep-u ltraviolet light. The effects of micro-magnetic

fields in the pineal gland are started now to be well

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known. On the other hand our unpublished preliminary

studies in detained-light and mitochondrial filamentation

“in vitro”, presented to the First International Congress

of Electromagnetism celebrated in Madrid several years

ago do suggest the possib le utility of such stimulation on

pineal cell’s filamented mitochondria. This is a mito-

chondrial character that especially in some pineal cells it

is very resistant to low temperatures.

After a few hours in this state, external support aids

would be gradually reduced and subsequently small,

sharp interruptions would be made to gain autonomous

control. The return to a normal life of the superior animal

would be demonstrated if it behaved in approximately

the same way as before its transitory death. Only then if

after obtaining full successful trial results on a represen-

tative sample of adult apes, could we advance to the hu-

man baby.

7. DISCUSSION

With the addition of this research proposal, the methods

suggested to try to suspend partially or totally the phy-

siological life of complex organisms have a newly ar-

rived seed concept to the human imagination. It is placed

in the acute, o semi-chronic, time range. In my opinion to

extend the metabolic life for more than two months will

need very fatty organisms.

If this research, with the decades, will prov e to be us e-

ful, perhaps it will be later surpassed by unknown, at

present effective methods, of provoking chronic partial

suspension of metabolism for months or years at very

low temperatures. Thus is to say “Artificial Hibernation”.

In my modest opinion such methods are now far out of

reach.

It could be argued really many things, I am well aware,

working against the probability that our present sciences

could obtain in corpses a well all spread throughout all

the organism of metabolic activity extension for too long

times. In my opinion our first trials, until the methodolo-

gies were well perfected, must not intent physiological

death for most that 3 days, in animals, and one day in

sudden death babies when if it were possible to arrive as

a first end.

Let me suggest please, that this research proposal

could be considered as a first real international project, in

spite that some of the great scientific potencies of the

world could carry it all by them alone. An accrual of

research institutions, independently to the task, with in-

sufficient capability and concatenation, will yield surely

early macabre failures that could end hopes or give a

long retardation to a brighter future. By world science

true coordination duly passing to the human baby when

absolutely all would be very well controlled in high order

primates.

8. CONCLUSIONS

In the long term, the problems of this new endeavor I am

postulating need to be articulated now, calmly and sys-

tematically, with the help of everyone; there will be nu-

merous ones.

On obtaining the first successes, which I suspect may

come quite quickly using low order mammals and short

times of physiological death, many problems can be fo-

reseen whether matters are handled properly, such as,

blood dyscrasias and the loss of teeth, nails and hair.

The more complex subjects may require time to adapt

to their new life. However, I would expect that deep

memory will not be lost and the capability to gradually

piece the substance of the previous life together will be

recovered. In short, as for any new adventure of ideas,

bringing matters to a successful conclusion and in a

timely manner will fall, above all, on the younger gen-

eration. Enough time should be given, please, gener-

ously.

It only remains for me to pr offer advice on filamented

mitochondria, and that is for just a few more years until I

am overwhelmed by the new experts. Of course, I will

also ask for prudence and patience. Plus, of course, a

great care in all the experimental treatments: Of what

could result some day, in the more or less distant future,

transitory cadavers?

9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author is very grateful to his personal friend, Mr. Andrew Guy, for

the translation of the text from Castilian Spanish into English.

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