14. AKTUELLE PROBLEME DES MORBUS HAEMOLYTICUS 



NEONATORUM 

 1963 

 Editors: R. Kepp and G. Oehlert Ferdinand Enke Verlag 



(Symp. Hamatol. und immunbiol. Probl. der Stuttgart 



Fetal- und Neonatalperiode, part II) 

 90 pp., 25 figs., 16 tabs. 



(paper-bound) Price: DM 24.— 



These two supplements to the "Zeitschrift fur Geburtshilfe" contain the 

 proceedings of a Symposium held in Giessen (Germany) in May, 1961. The 

 participants were all clinicians (most of them from western Germany), and 

 the books therefore will be mainly of interest to obstetricians and pediat- 

 ricians. However, since almost all the work reported is on physiological or 

 biochemical aspects, those interested in general fetal and neonatal physiology 

 will no doubt find certain points of interest. This may hold in particular for 

 the five contributions on methods for the direct and indirect estimation of fetal 

 hemoglobin, which are to be found in the first volume. The second volume 

 contains several contributions on placental physiology in relation to immunol- 

 ogical problems. 



Contributors: part I: Ambs (Wtirzburg), Bartels (Tubingen), Betke (Tubingen), Goltner 

 (Wtirzburg), Kleihauer (Freiburg i. Brsg.), Koch (Giessen), Kiinzer (Wurzburg), Lohr 

 (Marburg/L.), Michel (Giessen), Mohrmann (Giessen), Ottelin (Helsinki), Ruhenstroth-Bauer 

 (Miinchen), Vartiainen (Helsinki), Vest (Basel), Waller (Marburg/L.), Wenner (Bonn), 

 Zilliacus (Helsinki); part II: Dost (Giessen), Hoffbauer (Berlin), Hummel (Freiburg i. Brsg.), 

 Martius (Miinchen), Mosler (Berlin), Oehlert (Giessen), Preisler (Freiburg i. Brsg.), Rind 

 (Giessen), Thomen (Mainz), Vest (Basel). 



15. CYTODIFFERENTIATION AND 

 MACROMOLECULAR SYNTHESIS 



1963 

 Editor: M. Locke Academic Press 



21st Symp. Soc. Study of Developm. and Growth New York and London 

 274 pp., 125 figs., 24 tabs. Price: $ 10.— 



This volume embodies the proceedings of the 21st Growth Symposium held 

 at Asilomar, California, in June 1962. Of the 13 contributors all but two 

 (Jacob and Monod, Paris) were American scientists. The areas covered in the 

 nine constituent papers may be briefly summarized as follows: genetic and 

 epigenetic control of protein synthesis (bacteria and differentiating cells); the 

 role of the nucleus in cytodifferentiation (lampbrush chromosomes); ultra- 

 structure and orientation (plant cell walls, plastids, collagen); chondrogenic 

 induction as a link between basic biochemistry and gross form. 



The book is opened by a synthesis written after the Symposium by its 

 President, Dr. C. Grobstein (13 pp.). A large part of this essay is devoted to 

 the discussion of the applicability of the Jacob/Monod model of enzyme 

 induction in bacteria to embryonic differentiation in higher forms. The article 

 is concise, yet lucidly written and thought-provoking. 



Needless to say, the book is well-printed and well-illustrated. It is con- 

 cluded by author and subject indexes. 



Contributors: Gall (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Granick (New York, N.Y.), Green (Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.), Grobstein (Stanford, Calif.), Gross (Boston, Mass.), Herrmann (Storrs, Conn.). 

 Jacob (Paris), Lapiere (Boston, Mass.), Lash (Philadelphia. Pa.), Markert (Baltimore, Md.), 

 Monod (Paris), Tanzer (Boston, Mass.). Yanofsky (Stanford. Calif.). 



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