Label-free quantitative LC-MS proteomics of Alzheimer's disease and normally aged human brains

Quantitative proteomics analysis of cortical samples of ten Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brains versus ten normally aged brains was performed by following the accurate mass and time tag (AMT) approach with the high resolution LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer. More than 1400 proteins were identified and quantitated. A conservative approach of selecting only the consensus results of four normalization methods was suggested and used. A total of 197 proteins were shown to be significantly differentially abundant (p-values