EA-3167 disputes the article's cell-signaling framing
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A commenter argues sunburn pain is not a warning signal from cells but inflammation from tissue death and cytokine response following DNA damage or apoptosis.
“The sunburn you feel isn't a distress signal from cells warning that they can't be trusted, it's tissue death and an inflammatory reaction triggered by a cytokine response.”
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DNA is the instruction set for protein synthesis. If your DNA is damaged beyond repair that's an issue, and sure apoptosis is the usual result and not cancer. At the same time however when cells die either from the direct impact of DNA damage or apoptosis they both stop working and spill their contents into the area... including signalling…
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Another interesting way to consider it is that a sunburn is a really mild case of radiation sickness.Or the other way radiation sickness is the deepest worst sunburn you have ever had.
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Makes me think of the nice shade of pink I get from hitting the ski-slopes. Cold, but daunting.
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Our immune system is _so cool_. Seems like every week I learn something new about it.
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