Table 1.

Cases of autopsy-confirmed AD and healthy control subjects used in the immunofluorescent staining

Postmortem cases	No. of cases	Age (range) (years)	Postmortem interval (h)	Senile plaques	Braack stage	Other pathologic changes
Healthy controls	6	50∼90	11∼19	None	I	One case has a small aneurysm and shows only mild atherosclerotic change
AD	8	64∼93	3.5∼15	Moderate to abundant plaques are mainly in dense core or diffuse	III∼IV	None