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**Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion with "dense" (darker) core and pale (surrounding) halo.
**Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion with "dense" (darker) core and pale (surrounding) halo.
***Consist of filaments composed of alpha-synuclein.
***Consist of filaments composed of alpha-synuclein.
 
*Lewy neurites - alpha-synuclein positive processes.
===IHC===
===IHC===
*Alpha-synuclein +ve.
*Alpha-synuclein +ve.
===Images===
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File:Histological sample of Substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease.jpg | Lewy body (HE, left) and Lewy neurite (aSyn IHC, right).
File:Lewy Body alphaSynuclein.jpg | Alpha-synculein positive Lewy body (WC/Marvin101).
File:Lewy bodies (alpha synuclein inclusions).jpg | Lewy body and Lewy neurites (WC/Suraj Rajan).
</gallery>


==Multiple system atrophy==
==Multiple system atrophy==