"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) |
A08.675.460 A11.284.420.460 A11.671.460
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lewy Bodies" by people in Profiles.
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Clinician-judged hearing impairment and associations with neuropathologic burden. Neurology. 2020 09 22; 95(12):e1640-e1649.
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Glucose levels during life and neuropathologic findings at autopsy among people never treated for diabetes. Neurobiol Aging. 2016 12; 48:72-82.
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Blood pressure and brain injury in older adults: findings from a community-based autopsy study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Nov; 57(11):1975-81.
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Association between lifetime cigarette smoking and lewy body accumulation. Brain Pathol. 2010 Mar; 20(2):412-8.
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Visual hallucinations in dementia: a prospective community-based study with autopsy. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009 Apr; 17(4):317-23.
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Empiric refinement of the pathologic assessment of Lewy-related pathology in the dementia patient. Brain Pathol. 2008 Apr; 18(2):220-4.
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Predicting lewy body pathology in a community-based sample with clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2006 Dec; 19(4):195-201.
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Study of Alzheimer's dementia patients with parkinsonian features. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 1995 Jul; 8(3):154-8.