TABLE 1.

Characteristics of human cases

ID	gender	age	PMI [h]	co-morbidities, agonal factors	cause of death	PD Braak stage
PD #1	m	77	24	dementia	myocardiac infarct	5
PD #2	m	79	48	depression, Binswanger’s disease	embolism of the arteries of the lungs	6
PD #3	m	82	84	no	broncopneumonia, sepsis	5
PD #4	m	71	18	dementia	broncopneumonia, sepsis	5
PD #5	m	75	18	dementia	broncopneumonia, sepsis	5
PD #6	m	76	8	dementia	coronary disease	5
PD #7	f	68	20	N/K	N/K	5
PD #8	f	69	n.k.	N/K	respiratory arrest due to high aspiration	5
PD #9	f	71	n.k.	N/K	N/K	5
PD #10	m	77	19	severe depression	respiratory arrest	6

ID	gender	age	PMI [h]	co-morbidities, agonal factors	cause of death	PD Braak stage
Control #1	m	81	12	no	N/K	N/A
Control #2	f	91	6	prior minor stroke	N/K	N/A
Control #3	f	73	72	no	N/K	N/A
Control #4	m	92	8	Binswanger’s disease	N/K	N/A
Control #5	m	66	24	no	sepsis after small intestine perforation	N/A
Control #6	m	45	24	no	myocardial infarct	N/A
Control #7	m	46	29	no	heart failure	N/A
Control #8	f	73	24	plasmocytome	not known	N/A
Control #9	m	83	48	arterial hypertension	myocardial infarct	N/A
Control #10	m	62	12	cancer	cirrhosis of the liver	N/A
Control #11	f	80	24	hypertonic arteriopathy	heart failure	N/A
Control #12	f	73	19	N/K	N/K	N/A
Control #13	f	72	n.k.	N/K	N/K	N/A
Control #14	f	74	n.k.	N/K	N/K	N/A

The table summarizes the characteristics of PD patients and controls from Ulm University, University of California San Diego and Mayo Clinic Jacksonville who have come to post mortem. N/K= not known; N/A=not applicable, PMI=post mortem interval