@article{e42092116d454774b78f2b56e3155c36,
title = "Ocular immunology: On the birth of a new discipline",
author = "Silverstein, {Arthur M.}",
note = "Funding Information: and other texts and monographs followed (102). Departments of ophthalmology throughout the world added immunological research laboratories to their facilities ( 103). These ocular immunology units soon began to hire basic science faculty members, a trend that accelerated after the Second World War with the expansion of interest in all biomedical specialties (104). The establishment of the National Eye Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in 1968 testifies to the growing scientific and political strength of ophthalmic and vision research, from the fruits of which research in ocular immunology also benefited immeasurably.",
year = "1991",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/0008-8749(91)90371-H",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "136",
pages = "504--518",
journal = "Cellular Immunology",
issn = "0008-8749",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "2",
}