Expression of one important chaperone protein, heat shock protein 27, in neurodegenerative diseases

Table 4 Cases assessed in Western blot analysis ^a

Case	Onset, yr	Death, yr	Duration, yr	Clinical diagnosis	Pathological diagnosis
1	43	45	2	FTD + MND	FTLD-TDP B
2	52	65	13	FTD	FTLD-MAPT
3	63	74	11	FTD	FTLD-Pick
4	na	80	na	Normal	None
5	na	82	na	Normal	Mild AD

^aAD, Alzheimer’s disease; FTD, Frontotemporal dementia; FTLD, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; FTLD-Pick, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration tau with Pick bodies; FTLD-MAPT, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with mutations in the microtubule-associated protein tau; FTLD-TDP B, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with transactive response DNA binding protein subtype B; MND, Motor neuron disease; na, Not applicable.

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