SCR-LIP-000305 · Claim · machine-readable JSON →

In subcutaneous adipose tissue of 11 lipedema patients versus BMI-matched controls, MIF-1 mRNA (fold-change 1.256; p=0.0485) and CD74 mRNA (1.514; p=0.0097) were elevated, with CD74 also overexpressed at the cellular level by immunohistochemistry (7.73 vs 5.18; p=0.0026), while MIF-2 was unchanged and CXCR2 was higher in controls, implicating the MIF-1/CD74 axis in inflammatory macrophage recruitment and polarization in lipedema independent of BMI.

Emerging clinical association Evidence certainty: low (GRADE)

Created: 2026-05-31 · Last updated: 2026-05-31

Auto-compiled by the Layer 1 surveillance loop; not yet human-reviewed. anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 · 2026-05-31

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2023DOI:10.3390/metabo13101105 · supporting

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Conditionlipedema
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