Table 1.

Demographic details for experimental tissue. PD = Parkinson’s disease; PMI = post-mortem interval; SEM = standard error of mean; NA = not available

Case	Age	Sex	Disease duration	Primary cause of Death	Tissue pH	Braak staging of PD	PMI
PD1	82	M	5	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.72	V	NA
PD2	82	F	15	Cerebrovascular accident	6.95	V	NA
PD3	83	F	14	Pneumonia	6.69	V	7
PD4	69	M	17	Bronchopneumonia	5.99	V	NA
PD5	90	M	7	Respiratory failure	6.25	V	NA
PD6	85	F	17	Cerebrovascular accident	6.58	V	26
PD7	74	M	8	Cerebrovascular accident	5.86	VI	NA
PD8	83	F	14	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.2	V	32
PD9	79	M	17	Septicaemia	6.7	VI	42
PD10	88	M	23	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.6	V	5
PD11	82	M	22	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.4	VI	19
PD12	82	M	8	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.3	VI	22
PD13	77	M	15	Aspiration pneumonia	6.4	V	15
Mean (SEM)	81.23 (2.36)	9M:4F	14 (2.37)	-	6.43 (0.56)	9V:4VI	21 (3.52)
Ctrl1	85	F	-	Pneumonia	6.4	-	23
Ctrl2	79	M	-	Pulmonary embolism	6.7	-	8
Ctrl3	84	F	-	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.5	-	6
Ctrl4	89	F	-	Metastatic adenocarcinoma	6	-	23
Ctrl5	91	M	-	Cardiorespiratory failure	5.9	-	13
Ctrl6	89	M	-	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.1	-	33
Ctrl7	102	F	-	Acute renal failure	5.92	-	NA
Ctrl8	89	M	-	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.7	-	22
Ctrl9	88	F	-	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.2	-	31
Ctrl10	49	M	-	Cardiorespiratory failure	6.5	-	47
Ctrl11	41	M	-	Cardiorespiratory failure	7	-	48
Mean (SEM)	80.55 (4.30)	6M:5F	-		6.36 (0.60)	-	25.4 (3.82)