Table 1.

Neurodegenerative diseases and protein deposits.

Disease	Inclusion	Abnormal protein
Alzheimer disease	Extracellular neuritic plaque	Aβ peptide
	Cytosolic neurofibrillatory tangles	Tau
Parkinson disease	Lewy bodies	α-synuclein
Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	Intracellular inclusions	SOD1
Huntington disease	Nuclear, cytosolic inclusion	Huntingtin
Spinocerebellar ataxia 1, 2, 3	Nuclear inclusions	Ataxin 1, 2, 3
Spinobulbar muscular atrophy	Nuclear inclusions	Androgen receptors