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Pick body
Saturday 29 March 2008
Definition: Pick bodies are tau (TAU)-positive cytoplasmic neuronal inclusion and are the pathological hallmark lesions of Pick disease, a neuropathological subtype of tau-postive frontotemporal dementias (FTDs).
Pick bodies are not related to the Lewy bodies observed in Parkinson disease, which are tau-negative and α-synuclein-positive (SYNA).
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neurogenerative diseases
