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lipofuscin deposits

Sunday 8 January 2006

Definition: Lipofuscin pigment granules represent undigested material derived from intracellular lipid peroxidation.

Images

 Lipofuscin is the "wear-and-tear" pigment of the heart. Morphologically found at the myocytes’ nuclear "poles"

 Wikimedia: intestinal melanosis

Localization

 cardiomyocytic lipofuscin deposits
 hepatocytic lipofuscin deposits
 Kupffer cells lipofuscin deposits
 lipofuscin deposits in digestive smooth muscle cells
 digestive melanosis

See also

 cellualr deposits

  • cytoplasmic deposits

 tissular deposits

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