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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurochem. 2019 Nov 4;152(2):235–251. doi: 10.1111/jnc.14898

Table 2.

Data analysis of all assay results of the caudate and putamen of the ten AD cases chosen for BACE1 mRNA analysis and age-matched controls

Assays Caudate Putamen

Mean ± SME p value Mean ± SME p value
8-oxo-dG (pg/μg total DNA) Control 20.67 ± 2.581 16.59 ± 1.928
AD 26.49 ± 7.545 ˃ 0.05 14.17 ± 0.823 ˃ 0.05

8-oxo-G (pg/μg total DNA) Control 33.08 ± 4.313 48.41 ± 6.115
AD 22.07 ± 1.838* 0.0376 37.46 ± 4.851 ˃ 0.05

Dopamine (ng/g wet wt) Control 19.29 ± 6.986 17.21 ± 5.083
AD 29.66 ± 9.108 ˃ 0.05 25.89 ± 4.060 ˃ 0.05

VMAT2 Density (fmol/mg) Control 133.5 ± 10.28 123.4 ± 10.62
AD 176.6 ± 17.08 0.051 152.5 ± 18.34 ˃ 0.05

D1 Receptor Density (fmol/mg) Control 25.28 ± 3.410 24.63 ± 3.318
AD 43.98 ± 1.292**** < 0.0001 40.38 ± 2.904** 0.0030

BACE1 mRNA Levels Control 2.804 ± 0.1252 2.664 ± 0.092
AD 2.948 ± 0.1615 ˃ 0.05 3.025 ± 0.101* 0.0197