Tabulation of the demographic, clinical and neuropathological parameters.

Table 1 abbreviations and explanations. AD = Alzheimer’s disease; ND-HPC = non-demented high pathology control; OO-NPC = oldest-old no plaque control; YO = young-old no plaque control; ID = Case identification number, y = years, PMI = post mortem interval, h = hours, Brain weight indicates the brain mass at autopsy, g = grams, MMSE = mini mental state exam, ApoE = apolipoprotein E, NP = neuritic plaque, Freq. = frequent, Mod. = moderate, NFT = neurofibrillary tangle, WMR = white matter rarefaction, CAA = cerebral amyloid angiopathy. String vessels indicates the average number of string vessels from numerous images, TH = tyrosine hydroxylase and TH density indicates the average % area of numerous images of sections stained with an anti-TH antibody. VAChT = vesicular acetylcholine transporter and VAChT vesicles indicates the average number of vesicles per image from numerous images of VAChT stained sections. Gray matter thickness is the distance in pixels from the tissue edge to the nearest area of white matter. Capillary number represents the average number of capillary objects from numerous images of collagen IV stained sections while capillary density represents the average % area covered by capillaries from the same images.