Table1.

Clinical data on AD patients and non-demented control subjects. The numbers of neuritic plaques per 2.35 mm2 microscopic field were counted in Aβ anti body stained sections of inferior parietal lobule (the value for each subject is the mean of counts of the 5 most involved fields in each section). PMI, postmortem interval.

Patients	Age (years)	Gender	PMI (h)	Neuritic plaques	Cause of death	*Braak stage*
Control
1	85	Male	2.00	5.6	Unknown	3
2	86	Female	2.25	7.6	Unknown	2
3	91	Female	4.00	10.4	Unknown	1
4	86	Female	3.75	7.8	Cardiovascular disease	1
5	81	Male	2.00	13.4	Pulmonary embolism	2
6	87	Male	2.40	0.2	Prostate cancer	2
7	82	Male	2.10	1.2	Congestive heart failure, pneumonia	1
8	74	Male	4.00	0.0	Congestive heart failure	1
9	76	Female	2.00	0.0	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	1
10	79	Male	1.75	16.2	Bladder cancer	2
Mean±S.D.	82.7±5.3	Male	2.62±0.91	6.24±5.89
Alzheimer's disease
1	83	Female	4.00	24.6	Aspiration pneumonia	6
2	86	Male	4.25	23.4	Bowel obstruction	6
3	78	Female	3.75	34.2	Unknown	6
4	90	Female	2.60	30.4	Unknown	6
5	75	Male	2.33	19.0	Congestive heart failure	6
6	81	Female	3.00	17.4	Unknown	6
7	86	Male	3.25	19.4	Respiratory infection	6
8	74	Male	3.00	27.2	Fall	6
9	84	Male	4.50	34.8	Unknown	6
10	84		2.75	31.4	Aspiration pneumonia	6
Mean±S.D.	82.1±4.8		3.34±0.74	26.18±6.41