Supplementary material for Sandre et al. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96 (19), 10591-10596.
Fig. 4.
(a) Time sequences of a pore closure in a vesicle tensed by intense illumination. Addition of glycerol raises the viscosity up to h0 » 32 cpoise and slows down the leaking of the inner liquid, which enables us to observe macroscopic transient pores; (b) the radius decreases at constant velocity V.