approach is comparative with emphasis on the mammals. The word "res- 

 piration" is not used in its wider sense, but as a synonym of gas transport. 



The nature of the book is for the most part sufficiently characterized by 

 the table of contents. Chapter 1 discusses gas exchange from the oocyte on- 

 wards, the influence of fertilization and cleavage, regional differences in the 

 gastrula and the metabolism of the organizer region (in amphibians), critical 

 oxygen pressure, the notion of maximal tissue thickness, and some related 

 subjects. Chapter 2 was included because of the large number of excellent 

 studies available on the chick embryo, although comparison with mammalian 

 data is often difficult. 



The book is well produced and illustrated, and is concluded by a 15-page 

 bibhography and an extensive subject index. 



32 ESSAYS ON FOETAL AND NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY 



1966 

 Editor: V. L Bodyazhina Izd. Meditsina 



312 pp., 78 figs., 29 tbs. Moscow 



Contributors: P. K. Anokhin, V. I. Bodyazhina, S. A. Brilliantova, E. K. Burova, D. A. 

 Farber, E. L. Golubeva, R. I. Kalganova, E. V. Kravkova, Ya. V. Metaksa, T. S. Sakhatskaya, 

 K. V. Shulejkina, S. S. Vasilejsky, E. A. Volpin, V. I. Yablokova, B. I. Zheleznov 



This book is written in Russian and is announced only briefly. It is a 

 collaborative treatise organized in six main parts as follows: I. General ques- 

 tions of early development (3 chapters); II. Development of movement and 

 feeding (2); III. Development of the respiratory system and of cardiac actvity 

 in the human foetus (2); IV. Development of electrical activity of the brain 

 of foetus and newborn ( 1 ) ; V. Development of the blood system in the human 

 foetus (3); VI. Some data on the development of the ovary and adrenal gland 

 in the foetus (2). 



The bibliography covers 22 pages. Twelve of these are devoted to Russian 

 titles. 



33 REGENERATION, HYPERPLASIE, CANCERISIERUNG 



1969 

 Editor: F. Buchner Springer-Verlag 



Handbuch der allgem. Pathologie Berlin - Heidelberg - New York 



VI/2 Price: DM 358,—; $ 98.50 



897 pp., 314 figs., 17 tbs. 



Contributors: Calvo (Ulm), Cottier (Bern), Fliedner (Ulm), Gretillat (Bern), Grundmann 

 (Wuppertal), Hess (Bern), Oehlert (Freiburg i.Br.), Roos (Bern), Schindler (Bern), Seidel 

 (Wuppertal) 



This book is part 2 of volume 6 ("Development, growth, cancer") of a 

 voluminous Handbook of General Pathology. Part 1 of this volume appeared 

 as far back as 1955 and was mainly morphological in character. The present 

 book consists in fact of five separate but related extensive monographs, which 

 all draw heavily on recent to very recent work carried out with the help of 

 modern biochemical and ultrastructural methods. They were written with 

 medical readers in mind, but are also of immediate interest to biologists wor- 

 king on cell renewal systems. They bring together and digest an enormous 

 amount of literature in the systematic way characteristic of the best German 

 and Swiss tradition. 



The five chapters deal with the following subjects: I. "Biochemistry of 

 regeneration" (general principles and examples from regeneration in epithelia, 

 cell cultures, and liver) (128 pp.); II. "Reparative regeneration of liver paren- 

 chyma" (115 pp.); III. "Regeneration, hyperplasia, and neoplasia in renewing 

 epithelia" (131 pp.); IV. "Normal and pathological bone marrow regeneration" 



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