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Does Immune System Quarantine Any Foreign Material In Body?
Question: Academic question. Does the immune system try to quarantine any foreign material in the body that it cannot get rid of by enclosing it in a cell mass? If so what cells of the immune system are involved and are stem cells involved?
Brief Answer:
Yes, body tries to quarantine
Detailed Answer:
Hello dear, thanks for your question on HCM.
Yes, body tries to quarantine all the pathogens including foreign bodies. There are many mechanisms for this. The mechanism you are telling is known as engulfment(enclosing in cell mass). Other than engulfment cells of immune system are.
1. Surface Barriers like Skin, Mucosa, Submucosa, Epithelial Linings etc.
2. Chemical Barriers like Enzymes secreted in body fluids like saliva, gastric acid, vaginal secretion, semen etc.
3. Cytokines involved in process of inflammation like prostaglandins, leukotriens etc
4. Various complements of complement system.
5. Memory cells which memorise the pathogen and produce specific antibodies.
And stems cells are also involved. Basically they are the progenitor cells. Master of all cells. From this ECTODERM,MESODERM AND ENDODERM cells are produce . And these cells goes on differentiation and produce cells of immune system.
Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Thanks.
Yes, body tries to quarantine
Detailed Answer:
Hello dear, thanks for your question on HCM.
Yes, body tries to quarantine all the pathogens including foreign bodies. There are many mechanisms for this. The mechanism you are telling is known as engulfment(enclosing in cell mass). Other than engulfment cells of immune system are.
1. Surface Barriers like Skin, Mucosa, Submucosa, Epithelial Linings etc.
2. Chemical Barriers like Enzymes secreted in body fluids like saliva, gastric acid, vaginal secretion, semen etc.
3. Cytokines involved in process of inflammation like prostaglandins, leukotriens etc
4. Various complements of complement system.
5. Memory cells which memorise the pathogen and produce specific antibodies.
And stems cells are also involved. Basically they are the progenitor cells. Master of all cells. From this ECTODERM,MESODERM AND ENDODERM cells are produce . And these cells goes on differentiation and produce cells of immune system.
Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Thanks.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Nalaparaju
Thank you, your information is very helpful.
I would like to ask a bit more.
I found that cancer cells/ cancer stem cells were attempting to fulfill the function of protection from a perceived danger in my body. So a cell wall was built. When I realized the danger is unreal I found that the cancer stem cells and cancer cells revert back to the stem cells from which they originated but with an "epigenetic potential" or memory if you like that enables them to rapid return to cancer cells if another danger is perceived inside my body. I have used this knowledge to remiss my cancers deliberately and now not develop them anymore.
So my follow up question is in your knowledge how different are cancer cells to the cells that become involved in engulfment? And do they also have the characteristic of being hypoxic?
I would like to ask a bit more.
I found that cancer cells/ cancer stem cells were attempting to fulfill the function of protection from a perceived danger in my body. So a cell wall was built. When I realized the danger is unreal I found that the cancer stem cells and cancer cells revert back to the stem cells from which they originated but with an "epigenetic potential" or memory if you like that enables them to rapid return to cancer cells if another danger is perceived inside my body. I have used this knowledge to remiss my cancers deliberately and now not develop them anymore.
So my follow up question is in your knowledge how different are cancer cells to the cells that become involved in engulfment? And do they also have the characteristic of being hypoxic?
Brief Answer:
cells of engulfment are different than cancer cell
Detailed Answer:
Hello dear thanks for your query.
Any cell can become cancer cell if transformation has been occured. Cancer is uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
So it can be cells of skin, lungs, brain , liver etc or even blood cells too.
But once cells become cancerous they lost all their functions.
So in blood cancer, cancerous blood cells can not perform functions of normal blood cells like engulfment.
So cancer cells are totally different from cells involved in engulfment. They are different in every aspect from normal cells.
My answer to your second question is yes, cancer cells can become hypoxic.
They too undergo hypoxic cell death. But their rate of growth is exponentially high which overcomes hypoxic death. So tumours are always growing.
Hope I have solved your queries. If you are not having any further queries than please close the conversation and rate the answer. Thanks.
cells of engulfment are different than cancer cell
Detailed Answer:
Hello dear thanks for your query.
Any cell can become cancer cell if transformation has been occured. Cancer is uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
So it can be cells of skin, lungs, brain , liver etc or even blood cells too.
But once cells become cancerous they lost all their functions.
So in blood cancer, cancerous blood cells can not perform functions of normal blood cells like engulfment.
So cancer cells are totally different from cells involved in engulfment. They are different in every aspect from normal cells.
My answer to your second question is yes, cancer cells can become hypoxic.
They too undergo hypoxic cell death. But their rate of growth is exponentially high which overcomes hypoxic death. So tumours are always growing.
Hope I have solved your queries. If you are not having any further queries than please close the conversation and rate the answer. Thanks.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Raju A.T
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