3 ms·
Injecting anything bad to cells gets immune system to attack them. The problem is how to selectively inject it to cells you need, no?
by deepsun 7y ago
Injecting anything bad to cells gets immune system to attack them. The problem is how to selectively inject it to cells you need, no?
- k__ 7y agoReally? I assumed vaccines wouldn't destroy healthy tissue.
- wanderr 7y agoTumors aren't healthy tissue. My guess is that an immune system on high alert in an area is more likely to notice bad stuff that otherwise gets ignored. One effective way to get your immune system to kill warts is to induce a low grade infection in the wart. The immune system will "notice" the virus and kill it. If you just freeze them off they are likely to reappear elsewhere because the virus is still present.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoHow do you induce an infection in a wart?
- zapdrive 7y agoAsking for a friend, right?
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoNo I just wonder how.
- wanderr 7y agoThere are probably multiple ways but the way I read about is to use a pumice stone to scrape away the top layer of skin - doesn't hurt because the skin is dead, and then keep it covered with something like duct tape to prevent it from breathing/healing normally & quickly.
- sjg007 7y agoFreezing them also turns on the immune response.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> Tumors aren't healthy tissue. Well, they're tissue that isn't fulfilling its design goals. They're perfectly healthy, sadly.
- gshdg 7y agoVaccines don’t destroy tissue, period. They activate the immune system, which may or may not react to the vaccine by destroying tissue.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoIn the article: > The use of melanoma cells is informative, as these cells cannot be infected by the influenza virus. So this system also provides a test of whether the tumor cells themselves have to be infected in order to increase the immune response to them. Apparently they do not. Having an active influenza virus infection reduced the ability of the melanoma cells to establish themselves in the lung. The effect isn't limited to the location of the infection, though, as tumors in the lung that wasn't infected were also inhibited. The effects were similar when breast cancer cells were placed into the lung, as well.