erythropoietin production and utilization in fetal goats and 

 sheep, and by Skjaelaaen et al. on InhiDltion of erythropolesls 

 by newborn Infant plasma. The fourth section contains four pa- 

 pers on the mechanism of action of erythropoietin, one of them 

 (Dy Yoffey) dealing with the stem cell problem in postnatal life 

 Other sections deal with the production sites and inhibitors of 

 erythropoietin. Most papers are followed by discussions. 



The issue is well produced and well illustrated. It has no in- 

 dexes . 



60b. 



Y.MATOTH, ed. 1972. ERYTHROPOIESIS, regulatory mechanisms and 



developmental aspects 



Academic Press, New York, etc. VI, 206 pp., 90 figs. 52 taos 



$ 10.00 



This book is identical in content and production to the jour- 

 nal issue reviewed above (Matoth, 1971), except that it now has 

 a hard cover. There are no indexes. 



61. 



G.E.W.WOLSTENHOLME and J. KNIGHT, eds . 1971. GROWTH CONTROL IN 

 CELL CULTURES 



Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, etc. A Ciba Foundation Sympo- 

 sium. IX, 275 pp., 74 figs., 19 tabs., author and subject indexes. 

 £ 3.00 



Contributors: Bard, Burger, Biirk, Clarke, Cunningham, Dulbecco, 

 Holland, Holley, Montagnier, Pitts, Rubin, Stoker, Todaro, 

 Weiss 



This symposium was held In London in October, 1970. It had 23 

 participants: l4 from the United Kingdom, 7 from the U.S.A., and 

 one each from Prance and Greece. The chairman was M.G. P. Stoker 

 (London) . 



The 13 papers read are recorded with the discussions following 

 them. Collectively they reflect the Impact of cell transforma- 

 tion techniques on this field, and the Increasing attention the 

 cell surface commands, along with serum factors. The concept of 

 "topoinhibition" or contact inhibition of growth, is very much 

 in the foreground. A paper of particular interest to embryolog- 

 ists is that by Weiss and NJeuma on (among other things) non-re- 

 ciprocal inhibition of growth in mixed cultures of chicken and 

 mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Pitts has provided an appendix 

 listing the growth properties of 25 different normal and trans- 

 formed cell lines. 



DEVELOPMENTAL BIOCHEMISTRY AKD MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (see also 3,6, 



' 20,24,34,39,46,47,^9,57,73,76,86) 



Textbooks 



62. 



H.MOHR and P.SITTE. 1971. MOLEKULARE GRUNDLAGEN DER ENTWICKLUNG 

 BLV, Mdnchen, etc. Serie Moderne Biologie. 230 pp., I88 figs., 

 3 tabs., subject index. DM 22.00 (paper) 



Contents: 1. Die Hierarchie der Komplexitat; 2. Ein Zellmodell; 

 3. Prinzipien der Molekula.rbialogle ; 4. Faktorenanalyse; 5. 

 Morphogenese bei Viren; 6. Dif ferenzierung; 7. Omnipotenz spe- 

 zialisierter Zellen; 8. Kerntransplantation und Zelldif feren- 

 zierung; 9. Chromosomenphysiologle; 10. Regulation des Zell- 

 wachstums durch Auxin; 11. Regulation der Mitoseaktivitat durch 

 Hormone; 12. Morphogenese bei Acrasina; 13. Kern-Plasma-Wechsel- 



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