I'am it's not like wolves don't get sick, or have strokes, but I could see that if it were a virus, that it would defend the body from other virus, that would decrease sickness and maybe cancer but it would not be a cure all.Set wrote:Werewolf! The all mighty magical cure-all! Only $19.95, and we'll throw in the dog smell for free!
...Seriously, am I the only one annoyed by that?
Japan's selling that right now, y'know? They even got Phoenix Downs and Megalixirs.Set wrote:Werewolf! The all mighty magical cure-all! Only $19.95, and we'll throw in the dog smell for free!
...Seriously, am I the only one annoyed by that?
Werewolf mother to cubs/pups: "Now dont forget to put your flea collar on before you go out. And when you come back I want you to take your worm medication. We raised some peculiar looks at the vet last time, dear."BlackWolfDS wrote:External Parasites: Ticks, Fleas, Lice, Tounge worm, Mange.
Internal Parasites: Flukes, Tapeworms, Roundworms, Thorny-headed worms.
Viriuses: Distemper and Parvo
Those are wolf Diseases and Parasites for the Gray wolf. If you were a werewolf and lived where Gray wolves live, these are some things to concisder before going out. Depending on where you lived, would determine what viruses and parasites you could possible catch.
Well I thought it was funny...even if it was off topic.Viruses infect cells, most commonly bateria. When a virus infects a cell, it pretty much hijacks it and makes the cell produce more viruses. Now the protien part is correct. Certain viruses have certain receptors that will lock with the protiens on the outside certain cells. Here's the thing though. You theriorize that if a cell had no protiens on the outside, it theoredically could not be infected and thus the organism would not get sick. Here's the problem. Cells need those protiens on the outside, inorder for the cell to bring in large objects or polar objects that cannot pass through the cell membrane. The cell membrane has a polar outside and a non polar inside. Polar objects will not pass through a non polar membrane.Moon_Lover wrote:If I recall my biology class lessons correctly (help me on this, BW), isn't it true that the way viruses and bacteria infect is by sensing certain points (proteins?) on a cell. Now, theoretically, if those specific proteins wre missing, the virus wouldn't have anything to "latch on to"
I don't understand what your saying here.....Moon_Lover wrote: Now, if this is true, then it would depend on what happened to the human when he became a werewolf. Would he have the points of a human, and the wolf have those points, or vice versa? Both? In a sense, it would be cinematic at this point, as we don't yet know what would happen to the WW.
Back to the heart thing. I think WWs would be fine. BUT I only think that because I beileve that the heart, veins, arteries, cappilaries, ect, would grow. The cholesterole though, would stay the same size becuase it's not part of the WW. It's more of a nasty build up.Moon_Lover wrote: Regarding heart attacks, I would think that it would depend on the size of the WW form. If the WW is larger, then the cholesterol would probably be at the very least dislodged, perhaps cycling to somewhere else. However, I would tend to look at it as an evolutionary thing. Kind of. When you consider the fact that if they were able to evolve and biologically learn to get the cholesterol in the blood cycled to "a certain point", and use that first, the WW would have a greater chance of living (Just enough energy at *that* moment).
On the other paw, there's the fact that the human would consider this a release, if not of the right mentality, and the eat into the high excess. Then they would most surely be either having the cholesterol clog at some point, causing a heart attack as the veins grew somewhat larger.
Or so it'd seem to me.
I thought it was something along those lines. The other part of the theory was that the proteins specific to those cells would be missing. That way objects would be able to get through, but not those bacteria.BlackWolfDS wrote:Viruses infect cells, most commonly bateria. When a virus infects a cell, it pretty much hijacks it and makes the cell produce more viruses. Now the protien part is correct. Certain viruses have certain receptors that will lock with the protiens on the outside certain cells. Here's the thing though. You theriorize that if a cell had no protiens on the outside, it theoredically could not be infected and thus the organism would not get sick. Here's the problem. Cells need those protiens on the outside, inorder for the cell to bring in large objects or polar objects that cannot pass through the cell membrane. The cell membrane has a polar outside and a non polar inside. Polar objects will not pass through a non polar membrane.
Sorry about that (I was really tired at the time)...what I was thinking of was that the abilities that a WW inherits are subjective. So if, say, a writer wanted the WW to never worry about catching getting AIDS, but could catch his death from the common cold, he could. It's just a matter of what kind of proteins he supposedly has in the cells in specific.BlackWolfDS wrote:I don't understand what your saying here.....
The problem I see with that is this: What happens when the WW changes back to human, and the veins compress? He'd be toast.BlackWolfDS wrote:Back to the heart thing. I think WWs would be fine. BUT I only think that because I beileve that the heart, veins, arteries, cappilaries, ect, would grow. The cholesterol though, would stay the same size becuase it's not part of the WW. It's more of a nasty build up.
No problemMoon_Lover wrote:Thanks for helping me out, BW.
Bateria don't infect other cells, they just do some nasty things. Viruses on the other paw.....do.Moon_Lover wrote: I thought it was something along those lines. The other part of the theory was that the proteins specific to those cells would be missing. That way objects would be able to get through, but not those bacteria.
It's okMoon_Lover wrote: Sorry about that (I was really tired at the time)...what I was thinking of was that the abilities that a WW inherits are subjective. So if, say, a writer wanted the WW to never worry about catching getting AIDS, but could catch his death from the common cold, he could. It's just a matter of what kind of proteins he supposedly has in the cells in specific.
Look at what I said in an eariler post.Moon_Lover wrote: The problem I see with that is this: What happens when the WW changes back to human, and the veins compress? He'd be toast.
(Sorry for the ever-so-graphic visual aid...)
