Councilman body

Councilman bodies ( also called " red body ", "red bodies" ) are single-cell sunsets from liver cells ( hepatocytes). They are a consequence of liver diseases, such as acute viral hepatitis or Steatohepatititis. Councilman bodies are the morphological correlate of liver cell apoptosis (controlled cell death), which are detectable as hyaline bodies.

Histologically, they are characterized by the removal from the cell cluster. By complete dissolution of the nucleus ( karyolysis ) is only the cytoplasm present.

Eponym

Councilman 's corpuscles were after her American explorers, the pathologist William Thomas Councilman (1854-1933), named.