Lewy bodies
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Lewy bodies are intracellular cytoplasmic inclusions which result from abnormal alpha-synuclein metabolism (thus diseases with Lewy bodies are synucleinopathies). They also contain other proteins (ubiquitin and alphaB-crystalinalpha B crystallin), fatty acids, sphingomyelin, and polysaccharides 1,2.
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-<p><strong>Lewy bodies</strong> are intracellular cytoplasmic inclusions which result from abnormal alpha-synuclein metabolism (thus diseases with Lewy bodies are <a href="/articles/synucleinopathies">synucleinopathies</a>). They also contain other proteins (ubiquitin and alphaB-crystalin), fatty acids, sphingomyelin, and polysaccharides <sup>1,2</sup>. </p><p>Lewy bodies are found in:</p><ol>- +<p><strong>Lewy bodies</strong> are intracellular cytoplasmic inclusions which result from abnormal alpha-synuclein metabolism (thus diseases with Lewy bodies are <a href="/articles/synucleinopathy-1">synucleinopathies</a>). They also contain other proteins (ubiquitin and alpha B crystallin), fatty acids, sphingomyelin, and polysaccharides <sup>1,2</sup>. </p><p>Lewy bodies are found in:</p><ol>