Aging and healing
Okay so I do not have a PhD in comic lore like your guys 😉
Take all the guys with a healing factor. Seems they can come back from any injury IE damaged cells and renegerated right?
Well doesn't aging have to do with cell death or someting like that? Would that not make those people practically immortal or at least able to live into a very very very long time?
essentially, yes. hence wolverine being 100+, as well as mystique. sabretooth's somewhere up there, too. other weapon x agents were grafted with a toned-down version of a "healing factor," which really only operates at a level which slows the decay and natural aging of their bodies' cells, and seems to elongate their "prime period" for cellular replacement. thus, it is referred to as an "age-suppression factor."
Disappear pretty much summed it up.
Blazing Skull is for all intents and purposes immortal. They aren't sure if he's stopped aging, or just ages very, very slowly. He appears no different than he did in the 40s. His cells regrow at an amazing rate, and seem to compensate for any injury; for instance he regrew his head after havnig it chopped off.
Others that have demonstrated a supressed age may include Captain America, in some alternate realities and whatnot, since his attributes are maxed out, it seems his aging was slowed if not altogether halted as well.
Nick Fury and others at SHIELD have the Infinity Formula, which I'm guessing affects cell growth related only to aging. Fu Manchu's age suppression formula works the same I'm guessing, and Diablo's alchemical age supression formula.
Originally posted by Scoobless
Like what?
Over time your cells are like a copy machine making copies of copies of copies and they break down. Most cells in out bodies have a "code" that tells them when to die after so many times that they replicate themselves. Sometimes this cell "forgets" to die and cancer appears and other things.
This is just really simple version, I'm not looking to add alot to a comic thread about healing and real life😛
Originally posted by Scoobless
Yeah... but the point of the healing factor is that the regenerated cells are flawless
oxidization is a large component of aging
regeneration of cells at an atomic/molecular level would combat this, but Soleran is correct in saying that aging is really complex.
If it was just cells making cells, we could cure it 😛
Cell growth is dependent on protein synthesis, which is, in turn, dependent on ribosome synthesis. Ribosomes are particles rich in ribonucleic acid (RNA) which participates in the synthesis of proteins within cells. RNA plays a key role in cell metabolism, specifically during the stages of division and protoplasmic growth so important to healing damaged tissue.
A wide variety of hormones play a major role in the stimulation of cell growth which is what causes healing. Steroids are one group that stimulate a certain type of cell growth-muscle cells in particular, and we can assume that Wolverine must have hyped-up steroidal activity, stimulated by damage to his bodily tissues.
Enzymes are complex catalysts of biological origin, protein in nature and found in all cells and the blood, which function to increase the speed of a reaction without being used in the reaction itself. We must assume that Wolverine's body is packed with exotic enzymes which contribute to his remarkable healing powers.
Wolverine's fast-healing factor would have to call upon a cocktail mix of hormones, enzymes, and other growth factors. As anyone who has to take a variety of prescription drugs knows, the mixing of different drugs can have unexpected, sometimes fatal side-effects. Hormonal interactions and imbalances can create a wide range of behaviors. If his hormonal functions are generally overstimulated that might account for his berserker rages. Here are just a few of the hormones involved in growth and healing that might figure prominently in Wolverine's amazing healing patterns;
Platelet-Derived Growth Factor: a growth hormone carried in the blood platelets. It is released when platelets adhere to traumatized tissues. Connective tissue cells near the traumatized region respond by initiating the process of replication and healing.
Sermorelin: a trigger for releasing the human growth hormone somatotropin, which is often used to stimulate growth in children with a growth hormone deficiency.
Gonadorelin: a hormone released by the hypothalamus that stimulates the secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone(FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) from the pituitary gland, both of which contribute to cell growth and development.
💃 go my typing practice in 💃 this info from The Science of the X-men: Wolverine