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An autopsy study determined that total kidney Gb3 levels were lower in infants than in adults (although only two individuals under 19 years of age were examined) [ 5 ] . Another study using immunostaining of biopsy samples found that glomeruli from infants (under two years of age), but not from older children or adults, bound Stx [ 6 ] . This provocative finding, albeit involving a relatively small sample size and patients who often had glomerulopathies, provided a potential explanation for augmented glomerular Stx sensitivity in young children.
Some rather startling and provocative associations result: Venus insufficiency , Phi Beta Capita, sin eruptions, positive throat structure (`culture').
Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.
While Chatterbox found the CBS News theory provocative and intelligent, he didn't find it wholly persuasive.
His provocative use of fictional narrator personas grew out of an "epiphany" that, "after several years of deep research I was, in an almost occult sense, there when Reagan was younger."