58. 



C.VAGO, ed. 1971. INVERTEBRATE TISSUE CULTURE, Vol.1 



Academic Press, New York, etc. XIV, 4^1 pp., 55 figs., 95 tabs., 

 author and subject indexes, $ 25.00 



Contributors: Aizawa, Devauchelle, Dolflni, Plandre, Glauffret, 

 Grace, Hirumi, Le Douarin, Maramorosch, Meynadler, Peponnet, 

 Quiot, Rannou, Vaughn 



Although this book is not about developmental biology, the 

 method of tissue culture is of such eminent importance for the 

 elucidation of many problems in our field of science that a re- 

 view will be welcome to many. The book, written by an interna- 

 tional group of specialists, is largely compilatory in nature, 

 but it is a veritable mine of information in an area were no 

 reference works existed so far. 



The present volume is in two parts. Part one is devoted to 

 methods in the following areas: invertebrate cell culture, in- 

 vertebrate organ culture, electron microscopy as applied to cell 

 and organ cultures, and the aseptic rearing of invertebrates 

 (mainly insects). Part two starts with a very informative chap- 

 ter by Grace on the general morphology and physiology of cul- 

 tured invertebrate cells. Then follow separate chapters review- 

 ing the problems and results of cell culture in insects (5 chap- 

 ters covering seven orders); Crustacea, Arachnida and Limulus; 

 Mollusks; and eight other invertebrate taxa ranging from the 

 sponges to the protochordates . 



Volume II is in preparation and will, among other things, con- 

 tain chapters on organ culture in insects, insect embryo culture, 

 and organ culture in invertebrates other than insects. 



The book's production is very good, but the English of some of 

 the chapters could have been improved by proper editing. 



59. 



U.WELSCH. 1972a DIE ENTWICK|^UNG DER C-ZELLEN UND DES FOLLIKEL- 



EPITHELS DER SAUGERSCHILDDRUSE 



Springer, Berlin, etc. Ergebn. Anat .Entw.gesch. Bd.46, H.2. 



52 pp., 24 figs., 2 tabs., subject index 



Ultrastructural and enzyme-histochemical study of differentia- 

 tion of thyroid follicular (P-) and calcitonin-producing (C-) 

 cells in rat embryos and postnatal stages of rat, guinea pig, 

 rabbit, dog, and cat; differences in relation to duration of 

 pregnancy; embryonic origin of C- cells; very good electron and 

 photomicrographs . 



Symposium reports 



60a. 



Y.MATOTH, ed. 1971. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY 



CONFERENCE ON ERYTHROPOIESIS 



Israel Med. Assoc., Jerusalem. Israel J.Med.Sci .Vol . 7 , No. 7-8. 



20^1 pp., 89 figs., 51 tans. $ 3.00, £ 1.00, IL 4.00 (paper) 



This issue contains the report of a three-day conference held 

 In Tel Aviv in July, 1970. It was attended by an international 

 audience . 



The 29 papers are grouped in six sections, of which the first, 

 entitled Fetal and neonatal erythropoiesis , is of most immediate 

 Interest to our readers. It contains papers by Yoffey on the 

 stem cell problem in the fetus, by Miura and Wilt on blood is- 

 land formation in dissociated-reaggregated chick embryo yolk sac 

 cells, by Matoth and Zaizov on regulation of erythropoiesis in 

 the fetal and newborn rat (2 papers), by Zanjani and Gordon on 



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