Intrinsic laryngeal muscles (ILM) are highly specialized muscles involved in phonation and airway protection, with unique properties that allow them to perform extremely rapid contractions and to escape from damage in muscle dystrophy. Due to that, they may differ from limb muscles in several physiological aspects. Because a better ability to handle intracellular calcium has been suggested to e...

The phenomenon referred to as illusory line-motion (ILM; O. Hikosaka, S. Miyauchi, & S. Shimojo, 1993a) has been described as a measure of the local facilitation of attention gradient. However, J. Kawahara, K. Yokosawa, S. Nishida, and T. Sato (1996) have demonstrated a spatially parallel search for an "odd man out" in the ILM direction. Apart from showing preattentive ILM perception in terms o...

In 1988, intrinsic localized mode (ILM) was theoretically discovered as a temporary periodic and spatially localized solution in a nonlinear coupled oscillator. This discovery triggered wide-spread investigations on energy localization phenomena in spatially discrete systems. In particular, observations of the ILM in micro-mechanical cantilever arrays enable us to expect that energy localizatio...

PURPOSE To identify preoperative markers on spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) for residual inner limiting membrane (ILM) in epiretinal membrane (ERM) peeling. METHODS In this retrospective case series the preoperative SD-OCTs from 119 eyes of 119 consecutive patients who underwent surgery for idiopathic ERM by a single surgeon were evaluated for markers predisposing for IL...

BACKGROUND Studies on vitrectomy with and without internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling for idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM) have yielded uncertain results regarding clinical outcomes and recurrence rates. OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical outcomes of vitrectomy with and without ILM peeling for idiopathic ERM. METHODS Databases, including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, Goo...

Macular hole (MH) diameter has a strong influence on postoperative anatomical and functional results. The inverted internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap technique improves anatomical and functional outcomes of vitrectomy for large MHs with a minimum diameter exceeding 500 mm.1 However, improvements in these procedures have not resulted in 100% satisfactory surgical outcomes. In some cases of id...

The internal limiting membrane (ILM), or basal lamina, of the neural retina is located between the end feet of retinal Müller cells and the vitreous cortex. Recent studies of ILM substructure and histochemistry suggest that the ILM lamina rara externa, a region of the ILM likely to mediate vitreoretinal adhesion, is rich in noncollagen glycoconjugates. To characterize the spatial distribution a...

Seventy-five inexperienced participants were timed inserting the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) and the intubating laryngeal mask (ILM) in one of five cadavers. Adequacy of ventilation was assessed on a three-point scale depending on chest expansion and air leak. Participants were also asked to intubate the trachea via the ILM. The ILM was inserted faster than the LMA (P < 0.05) with a greater pro...

PURPOSE To investigate long-term ultrastructural changes in the retina after internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling through the examination of morphologic changes 3 years after vitrectomy in cynomolgus monkeys. DESIGN Laboratory investigation. METHODS Pars plana vitrectomy was performed, followed by ILM peeling, in 2 primate eyes. Ultrastructural changes were investigated using light micr...

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a strategic concept for storage of information and documents. ILM is based on the idea that in an enterprise information have different values. Information with different values are stored on different storage hierarchies. ILM offers significant potential cost savings by tiering storage and 90% of decision makers consider implementing ILM (Linden 2006)....