Second topic.Cellular memory
July 12, 2010 2 Comments
Hi Everybody… It’s The Time to Get Fascinated 😉
Today, I’d like to write an interesting story I heard from my older sister who have attended a seminar called “The DNA role on effecting plants and water” by lecturer Youssef Shukran.
He has mentioned a story of a young girl who was suffering from heart issues and she got heart transplantation. In fact, the heart which was transplanted belongs to a young boy died in a car crash. After the procedure of heart transplantation she became healthy. The strange thing is that when she was discharged from the hospital and walking in the hospital green lawn, the father of the dead boy was a few steps away trying to hide himself observing her as she walked. Suddenly, she leaves her own father’s hand and hurries toward the boy’s father like there was a strange attraction between them, as if she has seen an old acquaintance, she hugs him tightly. For some moments, then, she goes back and holds the hand of her father again leaving the path like nothing strange had taken place!
Well, this story kept me wondering how could be that possible. As we all know that a heart is an organ which pumps blood throughout blood vessels by repeated rhythmic contractions. So how dose that effect the girl’s behavior?
As always, if you have a question, you have to seek for an answer. So that’s why I have begun my search on this issue. Luckily, I have found an explanation for this strange PHENOMENON.
And the explanation is “Cellular Memory” which is a theory state that our brain is not the only organ which stores our memories, personalities, habits and taste it can store in our other cells too. Mostly, heart transplantation surgeries support this theory. In order to study this concept doctors with help of the hospitals system forbids transplantee to know or speak to the donor’s family.
One of the known stories on this topic will be the story of an American woman called Sylvia Claire 47 years old received a heart from 18 years old Mexican boy who was killed in a motorcycle accident, and after the heart transplantation she begins to feel changes in here attitudes which basically was an acquiring the characteristics of the donor’s. She even wrote a book about her experiences towards this heart transplantation called “A Change of A Heart”
Another astonishing story is an 8 year old girl who received the heart of a 10 year old girl who was killed. After few days the recipient was overwhelmed with dramatic nightmares about an attacker and a girl being murdered. And after few sessions with a psychiatrist who become convinced by what the girl’s says. Then, they decide to corporate with police by the descriptions from the little girl, they found the murderer who turns out to be the killer of her donor’s.
However, there are millions of people questioning the validity of the concept of Cellular Memory. Their biggest question is why doesn’t it occur more often? One answer would be because of the neuropeptides(which function as keys that fit into specific types of receptors located on the surface of heart cells) when we get a transplanted heart which already have it unique set of self receptor that are different from the recipient. As a result, the recipient possesses cells will respond to two different identities. And basically, not every recipient will sense that a set of cells within their body is now responding to a second signal.
After all it seems there’s a huge luck of information related to Cellular Memory. I felt surprised when I figure out that this phenomenon is not new actually its known even before 1988! Hope that the science society will give this topic a littlie more attention.
As far as for my understanding, it is kind of easy to believe in. I remember my previous professor says “whenever you think about a cell, think about yourself”. Also there is a growing number of scientists who have adopted that “every cell in our body has its own ‘mind’…and if you transfer tissues from one body to another, the cells from the first body will carry memories into the second body”.
Breathtaking 😉
That’s it for today see you in my next post.
Bio student
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I’m very proud of you ” boistudent”, reading in such different and fascinating topics in science will help you
to become a brilliant scientist, it’s really an amazing and interesting topic” cellular memory ” and it’s difficult to find lots of articles about it …… keep it up ^^ waiting for new subjects …
it is really fascinating…i remember watching an episode about it..and some times the person who had received the heart experience a change in his attitude which is most likely from the donor’s personality ..
thankx 4 the effort ..
good luck biooo
c yaa ^^