 Lewy Bodies
"Lewy Bodies" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Intracytoplasmic, eosinophilic, round to elongated inclusions found in vacuoles of injured or fragmented neurons. The presence of Lewy bodies is the histological marker of the degenerative changes in LEWY BODY DISEASE and PARKINSON DISEASE but they may be seen in other neurological conditions. They are typically found in the substantia nigra and locus coeruleus but they are also seen in the basal forebrain, hypothalamic nuclei, and neocortex.
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D016631
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.663.460 A11.284.420.460 A11.671.460
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lewy Bodies" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Robakis D, Cortes E, Clark LN, Vonsattel JP, Virmani T, Alcalay RN, Crary JF, Levy OA. The effect of MAPT haplotype on neocortical Lewy body pathology in Parkinson disease. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2016 06; 123(6):583-8.
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