"Andrew K Fletcher" <gravitystudy at hotmail.com> writes:
> Has anyone any knowledge of the make up of the scar tissue in the plaques
> found in neurological conditions. In laypersons terms preferably.
The plaques seen in Alzheimer's Disease are made of a substance called
amyloid, which is a fragment of a protein called, straightforwardly
enough, amyloid precursor protein or APP. (I'm sorry, there is no
layperson's term for "amyloid".)
-- Bill