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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2017 Oct 19;14(3):318–329. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2017.09.011

Table 2.

Correlations between brain tissue glucose concentration, brain tissue ratios of glycolytic amino acids:glucose, protein levels of the neuronal (GLUT3) and astrocytic (GLUT1) glucose transporters and AD pathology (Braak and CERAD scores)

rho P value Brain tissue glucose concentration Serine+glycine:glucose (Hexokinase_and Phosphofructokinase activities) Serine+glycine+alanine :glucose (Pyruvate kinase activity) protein levels of glucose transporters (MFG)
ITG MFG CB ITG MFG CB ITG MFG CB GLUT3 GLUT1
Braak 0.37
0.014		 0.12
0.44		 0.21
0.24		 −0.37
0.016		 −0.13
0.41		 −0.22
0.23		 −0.46
0.0093		 −0.14
0.46		 −0.22
0.22		 −0.40
0.0051		 0.038
0.80
CERAD 0.47
0.0014		 0.39
0.0096		 0.25
0.16		 −0.52
0.0004		 −0.38
0.013		 −0.25
0.17		 −0.55
0.0010		 −0.31
0.087		 −0.24
0.18		 −0.42
0.0033		 −0.21
0.16

ITG = inferior temporal gyrus; MFG = middle frontal gyrus; CB = cerebellum The numbers in each cell show the unadjusted Spearman’s rank correlation rho and corresponding p values.