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. 2012 Oct 31;10:217. doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-10-217

Table 1.

Sample vocabularies for key AD disease, pathological observations, and tissue concepts, used in the AD IN

Alzheimer's Disease sub-types Pathological observations in AD Brain regions affected in AD
Alzheimer's Disease
Acute-Phase Reaction
Amygdala
Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease
Amyloid Deposition
Anterior Thalamic Nucleus
Early Onset Familial Alzheimer's Disease
Amyloid Fibril Formation
Basal Nucleus of Meynert
Familial Alzheimer's Disease
Amyloidosis
CA1 region
Incipient Alzheimer's Disease
Asymmetric Cortical Atrophy
CA2 region
Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease
Blood Brain Barrier Dysfunction
CA3 region
Late Onset Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease
Central Nervous System Inflammation
Cholinergic Neuron
Mid-Stage Alzheimer's Disease
Cerebral Atrophy
Diagonal Band of Broca
Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
Cholinergic Dysfunction
Entorhinal Cortex
Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
Corpus Callosum Atrophy
Frontal Lobe
Moderate-to-Severe Alzheimer's Disease
Dystrophic Neuronal Growth
Hippocampus
Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease
Glial Inflammation
Inferior Temporal Gyrus
Severe Alzheimer's Disease
Gliosis
Left Thalamus
 
Glucose Hypometabolism
Locus Coeruleus
 
Granulovacuolar Degeneration
Medial Temporal Cortex
 
Hippocampal Neurodegeneration
Parahippocampal Gyrus
 
Inflammation
Parietal Lobe
 
Locus Coeruleus Neuronal Loss
Prefrontal Cortex
 
Mitochondrial Failure
Septal Nucleus
 
Nerve Degeneration
Subiculum
 
Neuritic Plaque Formation
Substantia Innominata
 
Neurofibrillary Degeneration
Superior Temporal Gyrus
 
Neurofibrillary Lesion
Synapse
 
Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation
Temporal Isocortex
 
Neuroinflammation
Temporal Lobe
 
Neuronal Degeneration
Thalamus
 
Neuronal Dysfunction
 
 
Neuronal Dystrophy
 
 
Neuronal Inclusion Bodies
 
 
Neuronal Lesion
 
 
Neuronal Loss
 
 
Neuronal Necrosis
 
 
Neuronal Shrinkage
 
 
Occipital Atrophy
 
 
Oxidative Damage
 
 
Oxidative Stress
 
 
Perivascular Amyloidosis
 
 
Synapse Dysfunction
 
 
Synaptic Degeneration
 
 
Synaptic Loss
 
 
Synapse Enlargement
 
 
Tau Deposition
 
 
Tau Phosphorylation
 
  Tau-Mediated Cytotoxicity