Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2015 Sep 3;2015:939748. doi: 10.1155/2015/939748

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2015 Rachel Gelman et al.

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PMC Copyright notice

Light micrographs (LM) and transmission electron micrographs (TEM) of the ILM (asterisks) removed from eyes with diabetic macular edema ((a) and (b)) and stage IV idiopathic macular hole ((c) and (d)). The ILM is characterized by an undulated retinal side and a smooth vitreal side. ((a), (b)) Cell membrane fragments (arrow) on the retinal side of the ILM. The vitreal side of the ILM (arrowhead) is devoid of cells and collagen. ((c), (d)) LM shows a cell (arrow) with nucleus on the retinal side of the ILM. EM shows one large cell fragment (arrow) in contact with ILM and a single cell on the vitreal side of the ILM (arrowhead), which is likely a fibrous astrocyte [6].