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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Neuropathol. 2010 Mar 21;119(6):689–702. doi: 10.1007/s00401-010-0664-3

Table 5.

Regional frequency of phosphorylated α-synuclein histopathology in single slides of different body regions, with subjects grouped by neuropathological diagnosis

Dx SpCd Sym Vagus Sciat GI Resp Endo Cardio GU MSK Skin
ILBD 1/6a 3/6 2/7 1/6 1/7 0/4 1/4 0/6 0/4 N/A 0/2
PD 16/17 12/15 11/15 8/16 11/17b 1/8 2/9 0/9 1/8 0/6 0/8
DLB 9/9 7/9 4/6 2/8 5/9c 1/4 3/5 1/4 2/5 0/3 0/3
ADLB 1/19 2/15 1/15 0/17 1/19d 0/10 0/11 0/12 0/10 0/7 0/9
All 27/51 24/45 18/43 11/47 18/52 2/26 6/29 1/31 3/29 0/16 0/22

See Table 1 for listing of individual sites sampled and Fig. 4 for graphic representation; see supplementary online table for frequency of PASH within individual sites

Dx diagnosis, SpCd spinal cord, Sym sympathetic ganglia, Vagus vagus nerve, Sciat sciatic nerve, GI gastrointestinal system, Resp respiratory tract, Endo endocrine system, Cardio cardiovascular, GU genitourinary tract, MSK musculoskeletal

a

6/7 when multiple slides of paraffin-embedded spinal cord were examined

b

14/15 when multiple slides of paraffin-embedded and 80-µm frozen sections of esophagus and submandibular gland were examined

c

8/8 when multiple slides of paraffin-embedded and 80-µm frozen sections of esophagus and submandibular gland were examined

d

3/15 when multiple slides of paraffin-embedded and 80-µm frozen sections of esophagus and submandibular gland were examined