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Furthermore reversible inhibitors are less likely to cause enzyme malfunction [ 8 ] than irreversible ones.
Assuming the Lander didn't crash, the radio silence could be due to a misalignment of the antenna or a malfunction that caused the spacecraft to go to sleep.
It is certainly the ambition of the biologically oriented majority of psychiatrists to produce a manual of mental disorders which, as the saying goes, "carves nature at its joints"--one which lists diseases that are each traceable to a unique, identifiable malfunction in the brain.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by such a malfunction together with degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons, and it is thought that memory loss in this disease is partly caused by this cholinergic lesion [ 35 ] . In vitro studies point to two novel mechanisms that might cause dysregulation of PLD2 activity in AD.
The O-ring itself, Tufte makes clear, was not the only design element whose malfunction contributed to the Challenger tragedy.