X-ray diffraction study confirms intra-adipocitary lipid crystallization after lipocryolysis stimulus.
Lipocryolysis always claimed localized-fat-reduction to be a consequence of local apoptotic adipocyte destruction triggered by intracellular triglyceride crystallization. The idea is now under debate, for it has been suggested that the physical changes occurring in adipocytes after lipocryolysis could be better explained by a lipid gel-like transition process rather than by lipid crystallization. Since a) lipocryolysis claims apoptosis to be the key to adipocyte destruction and clinical-result achievement and b) it considers crystallization to be a necessary step for the apoptotic stimulus unleashing, any effort to untangle, prove or discard this process is very important.
Abstract : A series of measurements was done of the critical conditions for propagation of detonation between highly confined charges in the size range of fuze explosive train components. The point at which propagation across a gap or other relative displacement should occur for fifty percent of trials was determined by varying the displacement in accordance with the socalled Bruceton up and down method. Critical axial air gaps were determined as functions of column diameter, density, explosive material, and column length and critical transverse displacement was measured as a function of explosive material. Axial gap, as might be expected, varies directly with donor diameter. For any given donar diameter there is, apparently, an optimum acceptor diameter which is slightly smaller than the donor diameter. The gap also increases with donor column length, but a given increase in quantity of explosive is more effective when added by increasing the diameter than by increasing the length.