Lipofuscin role in involutive and pathological processes

The modern data on the lipofuscin role in the processes of intracellular exchange have been analysed in the review. The ambiguity of the interpretation of lipofuscin accumulation according to its importance in involutive and pathological processes has been considered in the study. Nowadays there are no data of morphological character, which allow objectively (in a digital equivalent) to find out the solution of the question about the functional importance of lipofuscin during the ageing of an organism or development of pathological processes.