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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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Hi again Desi,
Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I am so weak and exhausted right right now that picking up my wireless keyboard and putting it across my legs is a strain.
I write about IRI but don't talk about the process in which a physical trauma leads to plugging of millions of microvascular systems (MVS), which means the cells served by those MVS will no longer get any oxygen or nutrients from them.
The IRI process is pretty well-understood, but it involves several distinct stages that must happen in the right order, and requires an understanding of the immune response to trauma, the different roles of white blood cells, the chemical weapon they use to destroy invading pathogens (and healthy cells), and finally how these WBCs end up blocking the MVS'.
It took several thousand words to try to explain it at BT, and most people didn't get far into it before their right brain told the left brain that it was going to take a nap.
I keep trying to put together a summary of what happens during IRI, but now how or by which of the factors I mentioned above; just a simple explanation of what happens. It has been a difficult task that I haven't managed to do in just a thousand or so words. I keep trying.
Right now I'm focusing on explaining exactly how ischemia can cause every sign and symptom of this disease. I hope that by seeing that it does, some people will take the time and effort to learn more about IRI.
Don't feel sorry for me because I'm so tired; it wears me out, but I'm having fun posting once again...Vic
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Last edited by Vicc; 09-06-2007 at 02:04 AM.
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