>>11790793They've been found but that's not the whole story.
>Within the logic of MPT, AIH has to be refuted becauseit rejects the proven existence of the sodium-potassium
pump. The proof of existence is done as follows: the activity
of an enzyme (Na/K-ATPase) can be inhibited with a
poison (ouabain). The enzyme can be found in the
membrane of the cell. If a living cell is exposed to ouabain,
an equalisation of the different potassium and sodium
concentrations on both sides of the cellular membrane
should occur in direct proportion in time to the leakiness of
the membrane. The active transport of sodium and
potassium is obviously inhibited by ouabain. Thus, the
enzyme is the pump and its existence can be demonstrated
with the poison (32). The result is that every theory, which
rejects the pump, is necessarily false.
It has to be emphasised that the ouabain experiments are
not questioned or ignored in the AIH. Rather, alternative
>interpretations have been given ascribing an effect ofouabain not only on the membrane-situated Na/K-ATPase
but also on intracellular proteins (18). A careful analysis of
published results shows that it is not justified to call the
Na/K-ATPase a pump (5,24,29). ____****Note that the active
transport of ions across bifacial cell systems as e.g. different
epithelia or frog skin has not been disputed, rather, models
explaining this active transport have been published****____ (15).
However, after the decision to equate pump and Na/KATPase [with a Nobel Prize being awarded in 1997 to Jens
Skou (33)], our science-system has put to work a discreet
fraud to blight any general discussion of an alternative
interpretation of the described experiments as well as of the
physiological basic functions of living cells (25). This
discreet fraud will be described below. Awarding Nobel
Prizes becomes an act of canonizing ideas and hypotheses
into fully-fledged sacrosanct theories.
