Son of the Stars

Chapter 111 Mechanism Discussion
The human body is a complex system that is always running, constantly being damaged and regenerated.Cells are very fragile and short-lived, so the body must have the ability to replace them.

Cells can divide a limited number of times, and the divided cells can have the ability to work normally.These are all speculative and not very advanced basic biological knowledge.

But as the proverb says, "Garbage will not go into the garbage dump on its own." Those cells that have almost lost their normal working ability at the end of their lives will not automatically undergo apoptosis. At the same time, those cells with ruptured cell membranes and leaked Cell contents also need to be cleaned by someone.

In this case, NK cells responsible for clearing senescent cells will find senescent somatic cells and then attach them to release perforin and granzymes.The cytoplasm flowing out will eventually be engulfed by macrophages.

After the surrounding cells have completed dividing again, the vacant positions here can be replenished.The normal functions of the human body will not be greatly affected.

As for the continuous high fever that appears at the beginning of quantum energy release syndrome, this fever obviously does not come entirely from the energy released by the electrons of hydrogen atoms falling from the excited state back to the ground state.

The process by which Lu Chen came to this reasoning was also very simple - the fever temperature of those patients was wrong.

When an electron of a hydrogen atom falls from the n=2 excited state back to the ground state, it can release a photon with an energy of 10.2eV.Because the wavelength of this photon is 121.6nm, it acts on the conjugated double bonds in the aromatic amino acids in the protein, causing them to oxidatively break or cross-link, leading to protein breakage and denaturation.At the same time, it can also react with covalent bonds such as disulfide bonds and amide bonds in proteins.Thereby aggravating the deterioration effect on protein.

The problem lies here.

The energy released by the electrons of these hydrogen atoms falling into energy states will not be completely converted into heat energy.It first breaks the various chemical bonds in the protein, causing them to break.Only the remaining energy can be converted into heat energy.

Then, the prolonged high fever in these patients cannot be explained.When it explodes, it is obviously caused by a large number of electrons falling into energy states at the same time and releasing a large amount of energy instantly.But there is no suitable explanation for the stable high heat before the explosion - Lu Chen once believed that this heat should be caused by the drop in the electron energy level.

However, after studying physics for a period of time, Lu Chen began to realize his cognitive problems.If this uncontrollable high temperature is the heat energy continuously released by the energy level drop, then this means that the frequency of attacks in patients with quantum energy release syndrome over a period of time, or the overall number of hydrogen atom electrons that drop the energy level is Stay stable.

If this energy release can remain stable, then why does it explode after about seven days of fever?
There were so many unreasonable things that Lu Chen had to make a conjecture - the fever could not all be caused by quantum energy release syndrome.

On the way back to the hotel, Lu Chen kept introducing his speculations to Yang Weimin.This speculation is actually not mature. It is impossible for Lu Chen to think about it for more than ten years or more before coming to the conclusion like Yang Weimin did - so he stuttered a little and was a little incoherent when he spoke.

At this time, Yang Weimin's ability was revealed.Lu Chen muttered for a while that all the energy released by hydrogen atoms would not be converted into heat energy, and then suddenly realized that "the energy released should not always remain stable."If an ordinary clinical internal medicine professor were to listen, Lu Chen might be asked to chat with Director Li Xiaohui first.Yang Weimin, who had been working in the team for so many days, not only understood Lu Chen's theory, but also quickly grasped the key points and started thinking of his own.

"For the convenience of discussion and thinking, let us assume that the initial drop in the electron energy level occurs inside the cell." Yang Weimin led his students to start the discussion, "When the electron energy level of the hydrogen element in the cell drops and releases energy , UV rays will first affect the proteins in the cell and cause damage to the cell membrane. The cell itself that has released energy will die."

On this basis, the cells surrounding the energy-releasing cells will also be damaged at the same time, and this damage will continue until the energy of the photons is completely consumed.

Suppose the photon travels through three hundred cells before being consumed.That means that these three hundred cells have been severely damaged and formed a strip-shaped damage line.

At this time, there are still many hydrogen atoms in the excited state of n=2 inside the cell where the energy is released.

The electrons outside the hydrogen atom will naturally tend to remain in the ground state rather than the excited state.Just like current naturally tends to flow from high voltage to low voltage areas.When a hydrogen atom falls back to the ground state, of course the hydrogen atoms around it may also fall back to the ground state.Since the flight direction of the photons converted by the energy level drop is completely random, the damage zone of [-] cells will gradually expand into a damage ball of [-] cells in diameter.

Of course, the so-called "damage ball" is still just an approximate description set for the convenience of understanding and discussion. The actual situation is that this damage zone will behave like a hair ball that is strongly attracted by static electricity.The closer to the center, the denser the damage zone, and the closer to the edge, the sparser the damage zone.

This two-centimeter damage ball is mainly composed of broken cell membranes and outflowing cytoplasm. Similarly, the closer to the edge, the smaller the degree of damage.It is possible that only a few millimeters around the center of the circle are all broken cells.

The interior of the cytoplasm contains heat shock proteins, which are produced within the cytoplasm.Its main function is to help protect other proteins inside cells from rapid deterioration at high temperatures.Its characteristics also make it one of the important sources of immune response - when human immune cells recognize the presence of heat shock proteins in the surrounding environment, they can quickly realize that there is damage to cells around them.

Macrophages will move toward areas with higher concentrations of heat shock proteins through chemotaxis, and eventually find damaged cells and engulf them.

In quantum energy release syndrome, macrophages will first tend to move closer to cells where the energy release originates.They come from all directions and start phagocytosis around the origin cell where the heat shock protein concentration is highest.

Most of the damaged cell membranes and cytoplasm will be broken down by macrophages, part of the digested waste will be eliminated, and a small part will be presented to other immune cells to further activate the immune response.

Lu Chen's eyes suddenly widened when he heard this, "After macrophages engulf them, they will still continue to move!"

The car stopped steadily in front of the hotel, and the door of the bus slowly opened - but no one got off.Everyone in the car was listening carefully to the discussion between Lu Chen and Yang Weimin.

The driver didn't listen. After all, professional driving AI robots really couldn't understand the integration of quantum mechanics and cell biology.

"After macrophages phagocytose, they will assimilate a part of the cytoplasm, which of course also includes the hydrogen atoms that are about to drop in energy level." Yang Weimin nodded, "They engulfed the first batch of damaged cells and continued to increase the heat shock protein concentration. Move a little lower.”

"That is, from the center to the surroundings." Lu Chen added, "After they finish phagocytosis, the unique macrophages in those organs stay in place, while more will travel to other parts of the human body."

"It enters other areas through blood circulation, or enters other parts of the organ." Yang Weimin nodded, "Then, another energy release event occurred. A damage ball appeared. Then it was the third time, the fourth time... because With the involvement of macrophages and other immune cells, subsequent damage will become increasingly random and occur at more and more sites."

Until finally, when the last energy release event occurs simultaneously in all parts of the human body, an explosion occurs.

　This chapter mainly discusses the clinical mechanism of quantum energy release syndrome. It may seem a bit boring... but this theory is indeed very important.

　　In the following description, I will try my best to make the content easier to understand, so as not to be too theoretical or too uncomfortable.

　　
　
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