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CompleteNumpty t1_j9g9kb2 wrote
Reply to comment by ThinkBlueCountOneTwo in when a limb gets amputated, how do they stop the flow of blood? by EnchantedCatto
The calves actually work as secondary pumps for the cardiovascular system (specifically helping to return blood upwards towards the heart).
As such, the loss of one or more calves has a detrimental effect on your cardiovascular health, with many countries treating below knee amputees as if they have heart disease.
ipassgas t1_j9g93mw wrote
New memory is trained in the thymus to teach t cells not to attack self. Old memory from the donor would attack the recipient (graft vs host disease) which is a bit of what you want to hunt down the remaining cancer cells
inlarry t1_j9g90yc wrote
Reply to Why can’t mules reproduce? by Imaginary_Camel4213
Mules can reproduce - it's just extremely uncommon (only 60 cases recorded in the last 500 years). But, that being said, the other responses re: the genetic component fill you in on why that's the case.
https://www.npr.org/2007/07/26/12260255/befuddling-birth-the-case-of-the-mules-foal
iayork t1_j9g8zkv wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Why can’t mules reproduce? by Imaginary_Camel4213
It doesn’t change the original question much, but there are actually quite a few well documented cases of fertile mules. This page lists some older examples going back to the 19th century; some more recent (peer-reviewed) cases are listed in
- A fertile mule and hinny in China
- Key Aspects of Donkey and Mule Reproduction
- Fertile mule in China and her unusual foal
- Fertile mules
- A foal from a mule in Morocco
With dozens of instances being documented in spite of farmers actively trying to prevent mules and hinnies from breeding, it's likely that a fairly significant percentage (though of course a minority) of them are fertile.
Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat t1_j9g7xqt wrote
Reply to comment by dragonlhama in Can a normal human cell have more than one nucleus? by North_Recognition199
In other cases, are multinucleated cells usually cancer?
theubster t1_j9g756v wrote
Reply to comment by ithinkformyself76 in How and why does asphyxiation induce euphoria? by Ausoge
No, you slow down.
If you're doing breath play right, there's minimal risk involved. Yes, some people have died when doing autoerotic asphyxiation, but it's not some wild threat to society. The actual number is .5 deaths per 1,000,000 people per year in your average western country (per wikipedia).
For perspective, you have approximately 334 million folks in the US. That makes about 167 people who die yearly. Driving a car is 1.33 deaths per million. So, choking yourself to get off is less than half as risky as driving a car all year. In 1970, it was 4.74 deaths per million per year from cars.
Start choking yourself, stop driving, and you'll make society safer, better, and kinkier.
MrGeekman t1_j9g6llp wrote
Reply to comment by elevenblade in when a limb gets amputated, how do they stop the flow of blood? by EnchantedCatto
>electrocautery or sometimes ultrasonic cautery
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I'm usually pretty squeamish with medical stuff like this, but those sound pretty neat! I only knew about chemical and heat-based cauterization.
VT_Squire t1_j9g4hqs wrote
Reply to comment by chew_stale_gum in Why can’t mules reproduce? by Imaginary_Camel4213
Recombination and uneven numbers of chromosomes as an impediment to viable offspring mostly makes sense in light of preventing chromosomal matching during the fertilization process. So yeah, fertilization occurs, but the resulting zygote is essentially informational garbage that fails to develop appropriately to thrive.
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Reply to comment by Urutengangana in when a limb gets amputated, how do they stop the flow of blood? by EnchantedCatto
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bonerfiedmurican t1_j9g2fif wrote
Reply to comment by ThinkBlueCountOneTwo in when a limb gets amputated, how do they stop the flow of blood? by EnchantedCatto
Depends on the size of amputation. A pinky toe? No different. Both legs at the hip? Yeah they can run into some cardiac issues which there are theories about why. I've attached a very topical paper on this if you'd like to read. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18281705/
Kaedok t1_j9g2e12 wrote
That's a recommendation for OTC use. If you seem to need it for more than 6 months out of the year you should be evaluated by a physician and considered for a prescription. Doing so should save you money in the long run if you have decent insurance (in the US)
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Reply to comment by dragonlhama in Can a normal human cell have more than one nucleus? by North_Recognition199
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guitarhead t1_j9g1qa5 wrote
Reply to Why can’t you “un-blur” a blurred image? by so-gold
What you're describing is 'deconvolution' and there exists algorithms designed to do exactly this (see for example, Richardson-Lucy deconvolution). However, you need to either know or make some assumptions about the 'blur' for it to work.
There is software that Canon releases for high-end cameras and lenses that does something similar. Becuase they know exactly the type of blur that their lenses create at different points on the frame for different focal distances, they use this information to remove some of that lens blur from the digital image. Canon call this 'digital lens optimizer'. See here and here for more info.
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Reply to comment by Lilweedoholic in How and why does asphyxiation induce euphoria? by Ausoge
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Reply to comment by ithinkformyself76 in How and why does asphyxiation induce euphoria? by Ausoge
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Ituzzip t1_j9fz004 wrote
Reply to comment by MrCyra in Is COVID unique in the way it affects different individuals in such different ways? by stupidrobots
Right, and not only are those strains all different but even identical strains could produce different sorts of disease in different people, based on things like prior immunity (or cross-immunity from a similar strain), the amount of infectious material that was ingested, how fast the digestive system is moving etc.
dragonlhama t1_j9fyvz9 wrote
Yes.
Muscle cells have several nuclei.
Hepatocytes (liver cells) have usually one single nucleus, but, occasionally, we observe some of them with two nuclei in normal conditions.
When fighting some kinds of pathogens, usually large ones, such as helminth parasites, the "multinucleated giant cells" are formed, which are kind of a macrophage megazord.
chew_stale_gum t1_j9fylfw wrote
Reply to comment by VT_Squire in Why can’t mules reproduce? by Imaginary_Camel4213
So at what stage does the development stop? Is there still a fertilized zygote?
Ituzzip t1_j9fydz4 wrote
Reply to comment by Balthasar-Hohenheim in Is COVID unique in the way it affects different individuals in such different ways? by stupidrobots
Do we actually know for sure the virus infects and propagates in non-nerve cells in these individuals? Viral particles can stimulate an immune response without ever infecting a cell (as in the way vaccines with dead virus work) so it doesn’t require propagation to stimulate antibodies in theory.
As to whether the immune system can stop rabies once it enters a nerve: animal bites take varying lengths of time to progress to symptomatic disease based on where they occur, with bites around the neck and face progressing to symptomatic rabies infections in days or weeks, but bites on the feet taking up to a year to reach the brain.
However, vaccination for rabies is effective at any time before symptoms appear. So it would seem that the body has ways of clearing the infection from nerve tissue. It is less effective at detecting the virus there and mounting a response, but when a response is stimulated by a vaccine, it seems to work.
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Reply to How and why does asphyxiation induce euphoria? by Ausoge
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Bax_Cadarn t1_j9g9qhy wrote
Reply to comment by SlingyRopert in Why can’t you “un-blur” a blurred image? by so-gold
>lets assume you already know how much it’s been blurred.
the poster seemed to consider a situation when they know precisely how the image was blurred lol. Is it possible then?
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Like x+y=3, if You know y =1, can You know x if x is the blurred image?