Research Article
Inflammatory Pathways in Parkinson’s Disease; A BNE Microarray Study
Table 1
Basic clinical and neuropathological characteristics of study cases.
| Case | Gender | Age at Death (years) | Illness Duration (years) | PM delay (hours) | COD |
| C01 | M | 66 | N/A | 23.00 | Global heart failure, hypopharynx carcinoma | C02 | M | 54 | N/A | 27.00 | Pneumonia, respiratory failure | C03 | M | 64 | N/A | 50.00 | Kearns-Sayre-Syndrome, resp. failure | C04 | M | 55 | N/A | 24.00 | Aspiration pneumonia | C05 | F | 60 | N/A | 9.00 | Circulatory collapse, cutaneous T-cell-lymphoma perianal carcinoma | C06 | M | 58 | N/A | 9.00 | Unknown | C07 | F | 104 | N/A | 9.50 | Chest infection |
| Mean value | | | | | |
| PD01 | F | 86 | 15 | 5.50 | Sudden collapse | PD02 | M | 78 | 24 | 20.25 | Unknown | PD03 | F | 85 | 18 | 13.50 | Bronchopneumonia, Breast Cancer with metastasis and PD | PD04 | F | 76 | 10 | 13.50 | Unknown | PD05 | M | 77 | 10 | 5.50 | Unknown | PD06 | M | 80 | 19 | 16.00 | Unknown | PD07 | M | 80 | 5 | 7.00 | Unknown | PD08 | F | 80 | 13 | 10.00 | Old age and PD | PD09 | M | 86 | 8 | 2.50 | Ischaemic bowel and atrial fibrillation | PD10 | F | 87 | 9 | 22.00 | Gastrointestinal bleeding | PD11 | F | 81 | 14 | 21.50 | Unknown | PD12 | M | 82 | 11 | 10.00 | Pneumonia, Fractured neck of femur, Pulmonary embolisms, COPD, Dementia |
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C: Control; PD: Parkinson’s disease; PM: Postmortem; COD: cause of death.
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