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- noun Plural form of
oligomer .
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Examples
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Curcumin did not dissolve the plaque, but accelerated the formation of nerve fibres by reducing the amount of their precursor forms, known as oligomers, from which they were formed.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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Several research groups had previously proposed that rather than plaques, floating clumps of amyloid (called oligomers) are the key components that impede brain cell function in Alzheimer's patients.
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Small poisonous Aß assemblies, called oligomers, bind strongly to vulnerable neurons in the brain, but in the presence of collagen VI, this binding was blocked.
Lockergnome 2009
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This damage is caused by so-called oligomers of the peptide Aß, which is also found in amyloid plaques, a kind of precipitate, that accumulate in the brain.
unknown title 2009
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Instead, smaller, soluble clumps of 50 to 100 A-beta proteins, known as oligomers, are the most likely suspect, Strittmatter says.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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- Synuclein can readily adopt different structures and, prior to formation of the large fibrous form, forms early small intermediates called oligomers, "explains senior study author Dr. Yves Engelborghs from the Laboratory of Biomolecular Dynamics at the University of Leuven in Belgium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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$228,668 to Cognition Therapeutics (CogRx) to develop small molecule drugs that block the action of the toxic "oligomers" thought responsible for
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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In any case, the evidence suggests that the standard genetic code probably evolved only once RNA-like oligomers came into existence.
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It has an enzymatic function, the polysaccharides into monomers or oligomers disassembled.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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We know this because analogous functions occur with relatively high frequencies in populations of random oligomers.
A Minimal Genome 2006
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