Cytoplasmic filaments - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

1084 Gipson Invest. Ophthalmol. Vistial Sci.
December 1977
biologists are just beginning to sort out the
functions of these filamentous structures
within cells. Investigations of the role they
may play in disease processes have only
just begun. We are rather ignorant of disease
at the cell organelle level; a sick organelle
may be the very basis for a sick
organ. Investigating the cell biology of filament
systems of eye tissues may prove to be
a fruitful avenue of research on normal and
abnormal function of cells of the eye.
Ilene K. Gipson
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Oregon Health
Sciences Center
Portland, Oregon
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