As typical anchorage-dependent cells myocytes must balance contractility against adequate adhesion. Skeletal myotubes grown as isolated strips from myoblasts on micropatterned glass exhibited spontaneous peeling after one end of the myotube was mechanically detached. Such results indicate the development of a prestress in the cells. To assess this prestress and study the dynamic adhesion streng...

PURPOSE to evaluate the results of pars plana vitrectomy with peeling of the inner limiting membrane (ILM stained with infracyanine green (IfCG) in 26 patients with diabetic macular edema, and to identify which factors are associated with a better postoperative visual outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS 26 patients with diabetic macular edema were included in the study. A pars plana vitrectomy with...

The internal limiting membrane (ILM), the basement membrane of the Müller cells, serves as the interface between the vitreous body and the retinal nerve fiber layer. It has a fundamental role in the development, structure, and function of the retina, although it also is a pathologic component in the various vitreoretinal disorders, most notably in macular holes. It was not until understanding o...

Discovering dense subgraphs and understanding the relations among them is a fundamental problem in graph mining. We want to not only identify dense subgraphs, but also build a hierarchy among them (e.g., larger but sparser subgraphs formed by two smaller dense subgraphs). Peeling algorithms (k-core, k-truss, and nucleus decomposition) have been effective to locate many dense subgraphs. However,...

Being the key process of a promising scalable production method, mechanical peeling is often used to construct high-quality van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. By combining molecular dynamics (MD) studies and theoretical analysis, investigation heterostructures at different angles reported. Taking vdW interaction into account, we present theory that considers effects on forces. The verified w...

Abstract Freezing of water droplets impacting a cold substrate is commonly encountered circumstance impairing the performance and safety various applications. Active methods ice removal such as heating or mechanical means are energy intensive inconvenient. Here, we report passive method via harvesting thermal-mechanical stress ice, leading to self-peeling frozen upon substrate. We find that com...

This paper elaborates the cone–hemispherical gypsum particle breakages under normal contact with different shape parameters (contact diameter d, cone angle θ and sphere D) proposes a simple quantitative approach to discriminate breakage modes. The effects of on are investigated through analyzing processes, modes force–displacement curves. Three formed during experiments: peeling, peeling–splitt...

PURPOSE To report a patient whose foveal avascular zone (FAZ) decreased after vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling. METHODS A 58-year-old woman underwent successful phacovitrectomy with ILM peeling for a thin epiretinal membrane in an eye with a normal foveal contour. Optical coherence tomography angiographic en face images of the 3 mm×3 mm superficial and deep inner retin...

BACKGROUND The origin of the fluid and precise pathophysiology of optic pit maculopathy remain unclear. It has been suggested that submacular fluid originates either from vitreous or cerebrospinal fluid. We report a case of optic pit maculopathy which was unsuccessfully treated with vitrectomy and internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling, and subsequently resolved with revision of vitrectomy an...

AIM To evaluate the clinical and anatomical outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy and gas tamponade without internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling in symptomatic patients caused by myopic foveoschisis. METHODS Nine eyes in eight highly myopic patients who had myopic foveoschisis with foveal detachment underwent vitrectomy without ILM peeling followed by gas tamponade. Main outcome measures incl...