a: amyloid plaques ~
b: pearl in an oyster
What:
Their idea was that the brain was producing amyloid for much the same reason an oyster forms a pearl - for self-defense. "Maybe amyloid plaques are a brain pearl," Moir says, "a way for our body to trap and permanently sequester these invading pathogens."
Useful?
Writer: Neuroscientists Robert Moir and Rudolph Tanzi
LCC:
Where:
Date: Mar 24 2018 10:34 AM
# 11849 Critique Analogy