Alzheimer glia type

Parkinson disease, some cases of Alzheimer disease, and some types of prion disease are accompanied by the presence of Lewy bodies within the cytoplasm of neurons and also in nearby glia. These deposits consist largely of a dense core of fibrils of a-synuclein, a small 140-residue protein abundant in various parts... 

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