The participation of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3 released by astrocytes in the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease

Table 1 Characteristics of human brain samples

	case	age	sex	clinical diagnosis	pathological findings
non-AD	Case1	75	Male	schyzophrenia	Plaque(-),NFT stage II
	Case2	81	Female	iliopsoas abscess	Plaque(-),NFT stage II
	Case3	62	Male	schyzophrenia	Plaque(-),NFT stage II
	Case4	77	Male	liver cirrhosis	Plaque(-),NFT stageI- II
	Case5	80	Female	abdominal aortic aneurysm	Plaque(-),NFT stage II
AD	Case1	75	Alzheimer disease	NFT stageVI,C
	Case2	68	Alzheimer disease	NFT stageVI,C
	Case3	75	Alzheimer disease	NFT stageVI,C
	Case4	77	Alzheimer disease	NFT stageVI,C
	Case5	86	Alzheimer disease	NFT stageVI,C

Clinical and histopathological information pertaining to the brain samples used in this study. We analyzed five brains from patients with neuropathology-confirmed AD and five brains from control subjects. No significant differences in age were observed between the AD and control cases. NFT neurofibrillary tangle

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