Tag: The Designed Body
Another Layer of Defense: The Adaptive Immune System
Helping the rest of the immune system, the adaptive immune system brings extra intelligence, firepower, and precision accuracy to the field of battle.
The Body as a Battlefield: Proteins of the Innate Immune System
These proteins bring other immune cells to the field of battle, make neutrophils and macrophages more effective, and fight invading microbes.
Defending the Body: Neutrophils
It is the neutrophils that are the main defenders against infection.
The Immune System: The Body’s First Responders
In order to survive, the body needs a system that can detect and identify invaders.
The Immune System: An Army Inside You
Our immune system works like a military exercise where the enemy must be tracked down, identified, and destroyed.
Defending the City: The Body’s Two-Pronged Defense Strategy
Infections are possible in almost every organ of the body.
Hemostasis: Maintaining the Right Numbers Is Crucial
It takes imagination to believe that the ultra-complex and delicately balanced process of hemostasis came about by chance and the laws of nature alone.
Clotting: Controlling the System
If any one of the many clotting or anti-clotting factors were absent, life would be impossible.
How Clotting Factors Form a Fibrin Clot, Completing Hemostasis
Where do the fibrin strands come from?
Vasoconstriction and Platelet Aggregation Defy Evolutionary Explanations
Hemostasis and the clots it forms must turn on only when it’s actually needed and must turn off and stay off when it’s not.