lipomodulin |
Lipophagy |
fem-1 homolog a |
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[lipophage]
These cells are macrophages that have taken up lipoproteins. They are known also as foam cells and have been referred to as xanthoma cells.
The presence of fat in macrophages may indicate a metabolic disorder such as hypercholesterolemia (Vos et al, 1983). Such cells can be seen at wound sites during wound healing and appear at skin wound sites together with iron-laden macrophages (siderophages) earliest at a wound age of 2-3 days (Betz, 1994). Such macrophages are the hallmark of mesenteric panniculitis, an extremely rare disease in which the normal fatty architecture of the mesentery is replaced by fibrosis, necrosis
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