Fig. 1.
Braak staging of neurofibrillary degeneration and Thal staging of β-amyloidosis. Examination of serial equidistant coronal sections stained with mAb Tau-1 detecting NFTs revealed that topographic expansion of neurofibrillary degeneration in subjects with DS results in progression from Braak stage I in 25- and 26-year-old subjects to stage VI in all subjects 51 years of age and older. The pattern of amyloid plaque distribution corresponds to Thal phase 5 in all subjects 28 years of age and older. Observed pattern reflects completion of topographic expansion at the beginning of fourth decade