Strategies to develop medications to battle Alzheimer's disease have included:
A) infecting transgenic mice with prions
B) removal of the AB42 peptide of the amyloid deposits that it produces
C) fostering interaction between AB moelcules to generate fibrillar aggregates
D) procedures that encourage the formation of the AB42 peptide
E) antibiotics that revent replication of prions
Ans: B) removal of the AB42 peptide of the amyloid deposits that it produces
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