Other chapters in the book deal with biochemical genetics, mammalian and human 

 cytogenetics, sex chromatin, ageing, and a number of specialized cell types. This last part 

 is continued in vol. 3. Vol. 4 deals with intracellular control, the control of protein 

 synthesis, and intercellular regulation. Vol. 1 is entitled The cell and its organelles. The 

 books are well produced and illustrated. 



Monographs 



89. 



A. AHONEN. 1973. HISTOCHEMICAL AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC OBSERVA- 

 TIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT, NEURAL CONTROL AND FUNCTION OF THE 

 PANETH CELLS OF THE MOUSE 



Scand. Physiol. Soc, Stockholm. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, suppl. 398. 71 pp., 

 53 figs., 2 tabs. 



Histology, (fluorescence) histochemistry, and some electron microscopy of develop- 

 ing Paneth cells in small intestine and colon of mice aged 5d. to 6wk.; further experi- 

 ments on adult mice; mainly illustrated with (fluorescence) light micrographs. 



90. 



G. GOLDSPINK, ed. 1974. DIFFERENTIATION AND GROWTH OF CELLS IN VER- 

 TEBRATE TISSUES 

 Chapman & Hall, London. XII,323 pp., 36 figs., 80 pis., 5 tabs., subject index. £ 10.30 



Contributors: Bellamy, Brown, Ebling, Goldspink, Gondos, Harris, Horton, Jacobson, 

 Jones, Manning, Pritchard 



This book, written by nine British and two American authors, will be particularly 

 useful for advanced students. It concentrates on the development of cells in vivo, 

 particularly in those tissues on which most information is available: nervous system, 

 muscle, bone and connective tissue, skin, gonads, blood, and lymphoid organs. Morpholo- 

 gy, physiology, and biochemistry receive equal attention. 



All chapters are well organized and clearly written. Of particular value are the 

 excellent opening chapter by Brown and Jones on basic concepts of differentiation and 

 growth of cells (52 pp.) and the concise but very clear concluding chapter by Bellamy on 

 cellular ageing. 



Some of the chapter bibliographies are quite extensive. The book is well illustrated; 

 particularly the numerous photographic plates are excellent. For a book of this kind the 

 index could have been more detailed. 



91. 



G. M. PADILLA. I.L.CAMERON, and A.ZIMMERMAN, eds. 1974. CELL CYCLE 



CONTROLS 



Academic Press, New York, etc. X,370 pp.. Ill figs., 31 tabs., subject index. $ 16.00, 



£7.70 



Although there is little in this volume that was written from a strictly developmental 

 viewpoint, the cell cycle is so basic to developmental biology that we briefly characterize 

 the book as a service to our readers. It is a series of concise reviews written by an 

 international team of specialists and dealing with the control of the cell cycle in many 

 different lower and higher eukaryotic cell types. Unpublished material is included in most 

 of the reviews. 



The 22 reviews are grouped into three sections as follows: Regulation and timing of 



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