Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 1 , Pages 36-39, July 2000

The tensegrity model applied to the lens: a hypothesis for the presence of the fiber cell ball and sockets

Laboratory of Mechanisms of Ocular Disease, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Received 30 August 1999; accepted 22 September 1999.

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PII: S0306-9877(99)90994-5

doi:10.1054/mehy.1999.0994

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 1 , Pages 36-39, July 2000