Still,a theory exists that amyloid plaques are an effect of the disease, not the cause.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.

有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了

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The sticky structures were shown to be amyloid plaques.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

The leading theory blames amyloid plaques.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Plaques are unusual clusters, or groups,of proteins.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

In the end,all there will be is a giant puddle of water, the bronze skeleton and plaques a kind of testimony to the crisis of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13