Your Tears as an Anthrax Weapon
In some cases tears may actually be helpful for your organism. They are not just crying over someone dear loss or for over a romantic movie, they could actually trigger far more than this.
Saeed Khan, a researcher at the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jeffereson, Ark, is testing the effect that the lysozymes and the other biological fluids that attacks the cell walls of bacteria, can help fight anthrax. Tears contain the same substance like the egg whites do, lysozymes, which is why this is taken into consideration.
As when Khan and his colleagues introduced anthrax into an egg white, the lysozyme in the egg white killed the spores, which were as well killed when Khan added them in milk.
According to this research, tears are not the only part of our body that is able to fight anthrax, as according to Alexander M. Cole, an associate professor at the Burnett School of Biomedical Science at the University of Florida, sustains that almost every wet area in your body can fight it.
Therefore, semen contains some peptides, which are known as well of mowing down the bacteria in their path, so that sperm will have a clear path to the egg.
Another fluid is the sweat, which apart from keeping you cools, contains a peptide called dermcidin that is known as attacking the bacterial membranes. Moreover, the vaginal fluid of a woman is not mere for the sexual pleasure, but as well has some antimicrobial peptides that help fight such bacteria as HIV.
Surprisingly enough the woman urine can as well have killing germs powers. This is because it contains a peptide called human beta defensin 1 which keeps the urinary tract infection away from the kidneys.
As due to these results, body fluids are now under research to be used in the making of new antimicrobials. Due to the fact that it is highly known that our bodies may contain more germs than the actual cells we have, it is high time to use what we have to fight them from getting stronger.
