Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen

circletimessquare writes "The spleen doesn't get much respect — as one researcher put it, 'the spleen lacks the gravitas of neighboring organs.' Those undergoing a splenectomy seem to be able to carry on without any consequences. However, some studies have suggested an enhanced risk of early death for those who have undergone splenectomies. Now researchers have discovered why: the spleen apparently serves as a vast reservoir for monocytes, the largest of the white blood cells, the wrecking crew of the immune system. After major trauma, such as a heart attack, the monocytes are disgorged into the blood stream and immediately get to work repairing the damage. '"The parallel in military terms is a standing army," said Matthias Nahrendorf, an author of the report. "You don't want to have to recruit an entire fighting force from the ground up every time you need it."'"

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No such thing as a Vestigial Organ.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's about time that the earlier nazi/inquisition-style police-state presumptions are finally being burnt at the stake for making such dire assertions that there is such thing as a Vestigial Organ. Given that the spleenectomy procedure has noticibly only resulted in shorter life-span later in the trials of the host that endured, this would prove that such low-impact performances are indirectly proportionate to the life-expectancy of a man to be well over 120 years and perhaps upwards of the Holy Bible impelling 700 Years or more.

I believe it was Kent Hovind that provided much similar hash of colourable information concerning the better Origin of species and the standing man holds, citable in YouTube repositories that criticize him most nonetheless. And yet, here we see another good man being persecuted by unfathomable political bonds of jealousy in earning his living among the excess and smacked into prison for "structuring" his alleged liability for "income tax" despite there being no such court accusation referencable for lack of a trust relationship to that federal corporation agent to UNITED STATES (Title 28, 3002, 15(a)).

Re:What we don't know

[sakdoctor]

Scientific method. You've completely failed to understand it.

Now GTFO.

Re:How could the miss that?

[Anonymous Coward]

What a complete waste of a perfectly good post. I guess you cook twice the food you need too, so you can throw out half of it.

Re:What we don't know

[Attila Dimedici]

Proof that God is male- he ignores the concept of an instruction manual.

There is a manual, but since it tells people not to do things they want to do they say it is inaccurate, contradictory, and ambiguous.