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Table 3 Post-mortem ELISA Aβ42 levels and histopathologic evaluation of amyloid and tau pathology of immunized and non-immunized aged non-human primates

From: Preventive immunization of aged and juvenile non-human primates to beta-amyloid

Animal ID (age, years) (species, sex)

Immune response

Aβ42content frontal Cx, pg/ml

Diffuse plaques

Neuritic plaques

Vascular amyloid

Neuro fibrillary tangles

Other pathologic findings

Immunized animals

CW06-423 (22) (R, M)

H

BD

0

0

0

0

Colon carcinoma

CW07-220 (22) (R, F)

H

BD

0/+ (frontal and insular cortex)

0/+ (insular cortex)

+

0

Mild liver steatosis

CW07-221 (21) (R, F)

H

BD

0

0

0

0

Multilocular biliary liver cysts; mild lung emphysema

CW07-222 (21) (R, F)

H

BD

0/+ (frontal cortex); + (caudate head)

0/+ (caudate head)

0

0

Non-necrotizing granulomatous lung disease

CW08-237 (20) (P, F)

H

BD

0

0

0

0

0

CW06-422 (20) (R, M)

L

BD

0

0

0

0

ND

CW08-236 (20) (P, F)

L

BD

0

0

0

0

Renal cortical cysts

CW08-238 (18) (P, F)

L

22.17

++ (patchy frontal cortex); 0/+ (CA1, entorhinal, temporal, insular cortex)

++ (frontal cortex);

0

0

Papillary renal cell carcinoma; focal atypical adenomatous hyperplasia of the lung

CW07-223 (26) (C, F)

N

BD

0/+ (frontal cortex)

0

0

0

ND

CW08-239 (20) (P, F)

N

BD

+ (caudate head)

+ (caudate head)

0

0

0

Non-immunized animals

     

CW06-420 (18) (C, M)

N/A

BD

0/+ (frontal cortex)

0

0

++ (subiculum); + (CA1, frontal cortex)

ND

CW06-421 (18) (C, M)

N/A

24.61

+ (frontal and temporal cortex)

0

0/+

0

Renal oncocytoma; renal cortical cysts; needle tract injury of the spinal cord

CW08-232 (18) (R, M)

N/A

BD

0

0

0

0

ND

CW08-233 (19) (R, M)

N/A

BD

0

0

0

0

Organizing eosinophilic pneumonia

CW08-234 (21) (R, M)

N/A

BD

0/+ (frontal cortex)

0

0

0

ND

CW08-235 (19) (R, M)

N/A

BD

0

0

0

0

ND

  1. 0, absent; 0/+, minimal; +, mild; ++, moderate (reflecting most severely affected area in each brain region); BD, below detection limit; C, cynomolgus macaque; Cx, cortex; F, female; H, high responder; L, low responder; M, male; N, non-responder; N/A, not applicable; ND, not done; P, pigtailed macaque; R, rhesus macaque.