Friday 14 August 2009

Super-spleen

I've read this week that the spleen has been identified as a repository of monocytes - immune cells responsible for repairing damaged tissue (assuming that my very limited and brief understanding of the article is accurate). I deduce from this that part of Wolverine's mutant abilities is a hyperactive spleen.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - He may have more than one.
PPS - Wouldn't it be frustrating to attempt surgery on someone who heals that quickly?

3 comments:

Erin Marie said...

Shane on Home & Away died because of an apparently innocuous infection he got a few months after he was in a motorbike accident and they had to remove his spleen.

John said...

Ah, fictional characters. Is there anything they can't teach us?

Erin Marie said...

And people bag out Australian soap operas...