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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2015 Jul 17;36(11):3100–3107. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.07.018

Table 2.

Overview of those cases (CO: controls; HER: heroin addicts) which showed pTau (AT8) in at least the entorhinal cortex or more than one examined anatomical regions. White box indicates none; grey coloured box indicates single neuronal cytoplasmic (N) or 1-10/0.3 mm2 fine neuritic (Nt); black box indicates 3 or more neuronal cytoplasmic or >10/0.3 mm2 fine neuritic immunoreactivity.

Case Age Sex Duration of addiction Frontal Temporal Entorhinal Fusiform Gyrus Subiculum CA1 CA4 Caudate nucleus Accumbens Basal nucleus Amygdala
N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt N Nt
CO3 18 F - na na
CO6 25 M - na na
CO9 36 F - na
CO10 37 M -
HER1 19 M na na
HER2 20 M 3 na
HER4 21 M 2 na
HER6 22 M 6
HER7 23 M 2 na
HER8 23 M 3 na na
HER10 23 M 3 na na
HER11 23 M 3 na na na
HER13 25 M 7
HER14 25 M 3
HER15* 25 M na
HER16 26 M 1 na
HER17 27 M 3
HER18 28 M 3 na na
HER19 29 F 10 na
HER20 29 M 7 na
HER21 29 M na na na na
HER22 29 M na
HER23 30 M 13 na na na
HER24 30 M na na na na
HER25 31 M 2,5 na na
HER26** 39 M 6
*

indicates that in that case the locus ceruleus was also available and showed fine neuritic tau immunoreactivity;

**

indicates that ubiquitinated (p62+ve) neurofibrillary tangles were in the entorhinal cortex; na indicates not available.

In cases HER11, 21, 26 fine granular immunostaining of occasional astrocytes were seen in the frontal cortex, basal nucleus of Meynert and fusiform gyrus, respectively. Age at death and duration of addiction is provided in years.

M: male, F: female. NA: not available.