Medical Definition of Lipofuscin
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Brown pigment characteristic of ageing. Found in lysosomes and is the product of peroxidation of unsaturated fatty acids and symptomatic, perhaps, of membrane damage rather than being deleterious in its own right.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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