investigators. The text reads well but there is little room for the discussion of divergent 

 views. A major issue like that of the reaUty of neoblasts (which is much debated today) 

 receives a conservative treatment. Morphogenesis in the regenerate is discussed almost 

 exclusively in terms of inductive and inhibitory actions; this is one way of looking at the 

 prol^Iem, but certainly not the only one. The brief discussion of the relationships between 

 regeneration and regulation is unsatisfactory, and so is the equation of the stump ("la 

 base") to a morphogenetic field; it is not at all clear what the author means. 



The major animal groups in which regeneration has been studied are adequately 

 covered, but it is a pity that no mention is made of the important recent work on 

 gradients in the insect limb. 



The book is illustrated with simple but adequate line drawings. A few dozen key 

 references only are given in the form of footnotes. The subject index is very brief. 



Monographs 



69. 



L. D. LIOZNER, ed. 1974. ORGAN REGENERATION, a study of developmental bio- 

 logy in mammals, translated from the Russian by B. Haigh 



Consultants Bureaux - Plenum, New York, etc. Studies in Soviet Science. X,330 pp., 

 27 figs., 13 tabs. $ 45.00, £ 18.75 



Contents: I. Effect of the quantity of tissue removed on legeneration of organs; IE 

 Age and regenerative capacity; HE The endocrine regulation of regeneration; IV. The 

 tissue-specific regulation of reparative growth; V. The lymphoid tissue and organ 

 regeneration; VI. Stimulation of regeneration; VIE Effect of transplantation and 

 ischemia on regeneration; VIIE The effect of function on regeneration; IX. Regenera- 

 tion under pathological conditions; X. Regeneration and irradiation 



This book was first published in Moscow in 1972. It is a collaborative effort by ten 

 workers at the Institute of Human Morphology, Academy of Medical Sciences of the 

 U.S.S.R. They have made an inventory of the conditions of organ regeneration in 

 mammals, a subject on which during the last quarter of a century much work has been 

 done in the USSR which is generally not very well known in the West. This translation is 

 therefore particularly welcome. 



The table of contents speaks for itself. In most chapters the subject matter is arranged 

 according to separate organs. Liozner has provided a lengthy introduction and conclusion. 

 Here the emphasis is on general principles and often involved theoretical arguments, while 

 a certain amount of polemics is also included (particularly with Polezhaev's views). 



The translation is competent. The book is sparsely illustrated; some of the micrographs 

 are very black, but the publisher is not to blame for this. The bibliography comprises 

 close to 900 titles, over half of which refer to Russian work. There are no indexes. 



70. 



N. A. SVENDGAARD, A. BJORKLUND, and U. STENEVE 1975. REGENERATIVE 



PROPERTIES OE CENTRAL MONOAMINE NEURONS 



Springer, Berlin, etc. Advan. Anat. Embryol. Cell Biol. Vol. 51,4.77 p., 24 figs., subject 

 index 



Rat irises transplanted into various sites in the adult rat brain (irises were normal or 

 previously denervated; hosts were normal, ciliarectomized or sympathectomized); study 

 of patterns of reinnervation by noradrenaline, dopamine, and indolamine neurons by 

 means of fluorescence microscopy; vascularization of grafts studied by fluorescent perfu- 

 sion; numerous photomicrographs, photomontages, and semidiagrammatical summary 

 drawings. 



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