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Mavisdu1017 wrote:
Hello expert,
Could you help on B?
B says nerve-growth stimulants have similar chemical structures to those of the antibodies—>means they should have similar effect. And passage says nerve-growth stimulants can’t actuate damaged nerves, so the antibodies should have the same effect which can’t actuate damaged nerves, so nerve repair is not promising—>weaken the conclusion.
I wonder where I am wrong? Thanks in advance.

Hi Mavisdu1017.

Notice that "nerve growth stimulants" by definition stimulate nerve growth. So, regardless of that fact that the nerve growth stimulants have chemical structures similar to those of the antibodies, their effects must be different.

An analogous example is that of glucose, a sugar, and benzene, a volatile and toxic liquid. The chemical structures of molecules of the two are quite similar, but the effects of the two substances on the human body are very different.
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Re: Damaged nerves in the spinal cord do not regenerate themselves natural [#permalink]
This is a combination of cause-effect and assumption :)

Presence of the nerve-growth inhibitors is the cause behind damaged nerves not regenerating themselves (effect).
Now we have the antibodies developed, we can use the antibodies to remove the cause and possibly no cause no effect.

The assumption in making the conclusion that"nerve repair will be a standard medical procedure" is that if you switch off the inhibitor button, there are no alternate effects.

Option A challenges this assumption by highlighting that if we switch off the inhibitors button there can be significant issues, thus making us believe less in the conclusion that "standard medical procedure".

Option B says certain and not all. More importantly, as Karishma pointed out, similar doesn't mean the same. Even one difference can make a difference.

Option E says it would require steady supplies - there is nothing in the argument that says supplies can be a challenge. This is at best out of scope - the argument scope is limited to that "nerve repair will be a standard medical procedure" how - using the antibodies that deactivate those inhibitors.
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