Interstitium is a game-changer, and skin might not be the biggest organ in the body...
I hope you don't mind me taking your comment almost completely out of context, but this is so true!
This was discovered very recently (the paper was published only a few days ago).
Interstitium, the newest addition to the integumentary system ...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/scientists-discover-new-human-organ-interstitium/9598140
http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...r/news-story/1a4ad6c299a637719320b9ff758fe564
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/27/health/new-organ-interstitium-study/index.html
Or, for those who wish to debate the meaning of "organ":
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/03/28/interstitium-new-organ/
... and allergies can be triggered by molecules that aren't proteins.
Little molecules that are able to attach themselves to proteins can also trigger allergies, even when a person isn't allergic to the actual protein itself.
Haptens can attach to proteins:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/hapten
(Ok, the hapten one isn't so new ... but interstitium, oh my! There's a whole bunch of new learning to do on how the body moves things around).
I hope you don't mind me taking your comment almost completely out of context, but this is so true!
... "biological science is not static" ...
This was discovered very recently (the paper was published only a few days ago).
Interstitium, the newest addition to the integumentary system ...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/scientists-discover-new-human-organ-interstitium/9598140
http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...r/news-story/1a4ad6c299a637719320b9ff758fe564
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/27/health/new-organ-interstitium-study/index.html
Or, for those who wish to debate the meaning of "organ":
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/03/28/interstitium-new-organ/
... and allergies can be triggered by molecules that aren't proteins.
Little molecules that are able to attach themselves to proteins can also trigger allergies, even when a person isn't allergic to the actual protein itself.
Haptens can attach to proteins:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/hapten
(Ok, the hapten one isn't so new ... but interstitium, oh my! There's a whole bunch of new learning to do on how the body moves things around).