development"; Kafiani and Timofeeva: "Dynamics of the synthesis of nuclear RNA in early 

 embryogenesis."; Kiknadze: "Analysis of works on moving puffs in larval development of 

 Diptera against a background of experimental influences"; Studitskij: "Some questions con- 

 cerning the theory of tissue regulation"; Popov and Borsuk: "Relation between the specific 

 function of the retina and its inductive influences"; Fridenstein: "The induction process in the 

 adult organism evoked by transitional epithelium"; Vyazov, Averkina and Petrosyan: "Distrib- 

 ution of lens antigen in tissues of early chick embryos and induction problems"; Detlaf: 

 "Duration of interkinetic cell stage, cell division and differentiation": Kostomarova: "Differen- 

 tiation of loach blastoderms isolated from the yolk in different culture media"; Putchkov: 

 "Development of the morphogenetic apparatus of the sclera in the eye of the chick embryo"; 

 Ignatieva: "On the comparative morphological approach in the analysis of inductive inter- 

 actions"; Tumanishvili: "Role of intercellular interactions in regulation of tissue development"; 

 Vasiliev, Gelfand, Gelstein and Malenkov: "Cell complexes in hematomas of mice and rats"; 

 Zhinkin: "Synthesis of DNA and cell population in embryonic development"; Lopashov: "Em- 

 bryology and cybernetics". 



44. THE EPIDERMIS 



1964 



Editors: W. Montagna and W. C. Lobitz Academic Press 



669 pp., 314 figs., 43 tbs. New York — London 



Price: $ 15.00 



The aim of the first symposium on dermatologic research was to explore in 

 detail the fundamental aspects of the epidermis and the process of keratiniza- 

 tion. The contributors discussed mainly their own, or collaborative, recent 

 work in this field. 



Particularly valuable for those interested in developmental aspects are the 

 contributions of Sengel on the determinism of the differentiation of the skin 

 and cutaneous appendages of the chick embryo, of Bell et al. on feather form- 

 ation and synthesis of keratin by primary skin cells and by skin cells grown 

 in vitro, of Fell on the experimental study of keratinization in organ culture, 

 of Moscona on the stability of phenotypic traits in embryonic integumental 

 tissues and cells, of Hay on the secretion of a connective tissue protein by 

 developing epidermis, and of Mercer on protein synthesis and epidermal 

 differentiation. 



Further fine-structural aspects of keratinization are considered in six other 

 papers; two papers deal with histochemical topics and nine with biochemical 

 aspects. There are also contributions on biological and on pathological aspects. 



The book is well-printed and profusely illustrated. It is concluded by author 

 and subject indexes. 



Contributors: Bagatell (Cleveland, Ohio), Bell (Cambridge, Mass.), Bernstein (Ann Arbor, 

 Mich.), Brody (Los Angeles, Calif.), Caulfield (Boston, Mass.), Clark (Boston, Mass.), 

 Crounse (Miami, Fla.). Cummins (New Orleans, La.), Ellis (Providence, R.I.), Esoda (Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.), Evans (Seattle, Wash.), Fell (Cambridge). Flesch (Philadelphia. Pa.). Fre-nkel 

 (Boston, Mass.), Greulich (Los Angeles. Calif.), Hay (Boston, Mass.), Hershey (St. Louis, 

 Mo.), Kandutsch (Bar Harbor, Maine), Kligman (Philadelphia. Pa.), Madgic (Boston, Ma.ss.), 

 Malkinson (Chicago. 111.), Malt (Cambridge, Mass.), Mercer (Canberra), Merrill (Cambridge, 

 Mass.), Moscona (Chicago, 111.), Mottet (Seattle, Wash.), Nicolaides (Portland. Ore.), Odland 

 (Seattle, Wash.), Pearson (Chicago, 111.). Rashad (Seattle. Wash.). Rogers (Melbourne, 

 Austr.), Roth (Boston, Mass.), Rothberg (Bethesda, Md.), Rothman (Chicago, 111.), Schuler 

 (Cambridge, Mass.), Sengel (Paris). Stewart (Cambridge, Mass.), Stoughton (Cleveland, 

 Ohio), Swanbeck (Stockholm), Van Scott (Bethesda. Md.), Weber (Mainz), Wilgram. (Bos- 

 ton, Mass.). 



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