ABC Melbourne quoted Carr, saying: "[It's] important to the whole world that there is a proper management of the tourist pressures, that the area's not going to be trampled to death, and that there's going to be protection from the damage that could be done by floods".
The net result would be protection from neurodegenerative disease and extension of lifespan.
One possible function could be protection from harmful bacteria that are engulfed by eukaryotes.
One such advantage could be protection from infection by related viruses via RNA interference (Covey and Al-Kaff 2000; Hull et al. 2000; Noreen et al. 2007).
Given the results from animal models of RA, the major role of OPG in human RA might be protection from local bone erosion and systemic bone loss.
Studies in GH knockout animals have shown that this hormone is only minimally required for immune function [ 52], leading to an alternative hypothesis in which the primary role of GH is proposed to be protection from the immunosuppressive effects of glucocorticoids during stress [ 53].
