Table 2 Case details of olfactory bulb tissue. Parkinson’s disease (PD), Cortical Lewy body disease (CLBD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), *detailed pathological description of this case can be found in material and methods.

From: Metal concentrations and distributions in the human olfactory bulb in Parkinson’s disease

Experimental

Case type

Pathology

Case

Age (years)

Sex

Post-mortem delay (h)

Cause of death

usage

ICP-MS

Normal

Normal

 

82

Female

27.5

Myocarditis

ICP-MS

Normal

Normal

 

72

Male

12

Stab wound to hart

ICP-MS

Normal

Normal

 

73

Female

12

Metastatic cancer

ICP-MS

Normal

Normal

 

61

Female

22

Ischaemic heart disease

ICP-MS

Normal

Normal

 

80

Male

19

Ischaemic heart disease

ICP-MS

Normal

Normal

 

51

Male

18

Ischaemic heart disease

ICP-MS

Normal

Normal

 

63

Female

16

Dissecting aortic aneurism

ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD/CLBD/early AD

PD34

75

Female

10

Cerebrovascular accident

ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD/CLBD

PD35

73

Male

16

Pneumonia

ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD/CLBD

PD58

82

Female

18

Unknown

ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD/CLBD

PD43

60

Female

16

Bronchopneumonia and multiple organ failure

ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD

PD73

83

Female

4

Pneumonia

ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD/CLBD

PD60

80

Male

18

Urosepsis

ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD

PD41

81

Male

13

Renal failure/urinary sepsis

LA-ICP-MS

Normal (stroke)

Normal

Normal

80

Male

17

Bronchopneumonia

LA-ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD/CLBD

PD1

91

Female

5

Parkinson’s disease

LA-ICP-MS

Parkinson’s disease

PD/CLBD

PD2

65

Male

17

Bronchopneumonia