Glory to GOD
I have seen God for several times.one of these times I saw him under a microscop,He was there,more obvious than ever;with all his greatness.In fact I was looking at His spoor between blood cells & immune system cells.Ok,that's it;I should confess He's perfect in His job!
So today I'm gonna relate a real romantic,dramatic fable that occurs in the world of beauties:
Human body.
APOPTOSIS:Suicide of the cells
"One for everyone,Everyone for one";This is one of the most popular laws in the body.You can see the only important thing is:Protecting the communit's survival.
I don't want to write it's complicated mechanisms,I'm just interested to review a terrific event.
During development of a multicellular eukaryotic organism,some unwanted cells die as a normal part of the process.
This processs is called PROGRAMED CELL DEATH or APOPTOSIS.It provides a crucial control over the total cell number.The most prominent locations for it are the immune system & nervous system.
Apoptosis involves the activations of a pathway that leads to suicideof the cell by a characteristic process in wich the cell becomes more compact,blebbing occurs at the membranes,chromatin becomes condensed,& DNA is fragmented.
Ultimately the dead cells become fragmented into membranebound pieces,& maybe engulfed by surrounding cells.
Apoptosis is important,therefore,not only in tissue development,but in the immune defense and in the detection of cancerous cells.The existence of mechanisms to inhibit as well as to activate apoptosis suggests that many(possibly even all) cells possess the intrinsic capacity to apoptose.If the components of the pathway are ubiquitous,the critical determinant of whether a cell lives or dies may depend on the regulatory mechanisms that determine whether the pathway is activated or repressed.
Almighty!I can only say :Glory to YOU!
Today's Quote:"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend"~William Blake~
5 Comments:
Here's a thought about Apoptosis:
Is this God's judgement on the length of our lives? Since, there is this mechanism - obviously God's design - that limits the life of certain or all cells, could this be how God keeps our lives to 120 yrs or less, as opposed to the hundreds of years people lived before Noah?
Isn't it wonderful to see that even though apoptosis is a destructive force, the Lord still uses it to keep our bodies in order?! Everything He does is good!
By J Man, at December 06, 2004 11:09 AM
I don't know the reason of Noah's long lifetime;but I'm sure that if one day a cell,& just one cell decides to divide unregulary(and obviously in God's willing)no one can be able to do a thing,except the programmer of all these systems!
By Zorro!, at December 07, 2004 11:47 PM
My opinion is that prior to Noah, the world had perfect conditions. The Bible talks about a firmament (vault or expanse of the heavens) between Heaven and earth. This possible dome of water would 1)explain the perfect conditions and 2) explain where the waters necessary to flood the entire world would have come from.
Make sense?
Genesis 1:6-7 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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