what’s to stop the body from going completely rogue during healing? Couldn’t it just make the completely wrong cells for a scratch or something?
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That is certainly a possibility.
Before we get into “healing” we need to understand that the method in which a cell of a part of your body heals depends on the type of cell it is (a cell that divides rapidly, cells that rarely divide, cells that absolutely do not divide e.g adult heart cells.. or brain cells) AND the “helper cells” that were ushered to the site of injury to assist in healing (platelets , white blood cells, fibroblasts etc.)
If things are to go horribly wrong it generally happens in rapidly dividing cells, each cell has a cell cycle with “checkpoints” and if some individual has a mutation in the genes that code these checkpoints some incorrectly dividing cells (example a growing cancer) can go unchecked -> massive growth -> spreads everywhere.
Another way in which things can go “rogue” is too much of a helper cell (for example an overactive immune cell attacking parts of your own body – the premise of autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus).
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