The problems of Physiology in 1993 and hopes for improvement in 1994: a personal view – Alison Brading (p.18)

We are at present in an interesting and contrasting period of Physiology. On the one hand, there exists a rapid growth in our knowledge and understanding of the complex membrane proteins that play such key roles in cell physiology but, on the other, the understanding of the underlying components of many of the common physiological functions in humans and of what causes them to go wrong in disease is advancing with only painful slowness.