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lipofuscin deposits
Sunday 8 January 2006
Definition: Lipofuscin pigment granules represent undigested material derived from intracellular lipid peroxidation.
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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