Lewy Body x600 with arrow

uploaded on: Nov 15, 2008
by: jdmiles

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This is an H&E stain of a slice of substantia nigra. The unnecessarily large green arrow points to a Lewy body in a neuron. Here, the Lewy body looks like a big pink sphere. It is an intraneuronal inclusion, comprised primarily of synuclein.

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