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Classic Lewy body within locus ceruleus, H&E stained section x 600

Last updated on Tuesday, April 28 2009 by gliageek

Classic Lewy body within locus ceruleus, H&E stained section x 600

Lewy bodies are particularly easy to spot within pigmented neurons, where the halo is highlighted by the absence of cytoplasmic pigment

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Lewy Body x600 with arrow

Lewy Body x600 with arrow
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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