Table 4.

Samples of human hippocampus were obtained from the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Emory University

Case number	Age at death	Race/sex
AD-1	81	Male
AD-2	83	Caucasian male
AD-3	66	African American female
Control-1	88	Caucasian female
Control-2	94	Caucasian male

Samples were screened for presence of Hirano bodies, and were derived from patients with AD, or control subjects that had no known history of neurological disease and no neuropathological changes indicative of neurodegenerative disease at autopsy.