The contributed papers cover widely differing subjects but most 

 are In the area of cranlo-faclal development. ' 



The first Symposium Is general In scope and contains a brief 

 introduction by Auerbach on inductive tissue Interactions and 

 papers by Cheek on hormonal and nutritional factors in muscle 

 cell growth, by Urlst and Strates on bone morphogenetic protein 

 and by Garn and Burdl on prenatal ordering and postnatal se- * 

 quence in human dental development. The second Symposium specif- 

 ically concentrates on cranlo-faclal growth in mammals. We men- 

 tion three out of the five papers: Farbman on differentiation of 

 oral epithelium and taste bud development in the rat, Humphrey 

 on the development of the oral and facial motor mechanism in the 

 human fetus, and Hoyte on mechanisms of growth in the cranial 

 vault and base in various laboratory mammals. 



46. 



R.PAOLETTI and A.N.DAVISON, eds. 1971. CHEMISTRY AND BRAIN 

 DEVELOPMENT 



Plenum Press, New York, etc. Advances in Experimental Medicine 

 and Biology Vol.13. X,457 pp., l48 figs., 39 tabs., subject in- 

 dex. $ 22.50, £ 10.50 



This book contains the papers read at the Advanced Study In- 

 stitute on Chemistry of Brain Development, held in Milan in Sep- 

 tember, 1970. The discussions are not recorded. The contributors 

 came from North America, Italy, England, and some other European 

 countries. Most papers are research reports, but some are re- 

 views of specific topics. Most of the work reported deals with 

 the fetal and postnatal mammalian and human brain, but some pa- 

 pers are based on work with the chick embryo. Some papers deal 

 with the adult brain only, particularly in the section on mem- 

 brane structure and function. 



The 32 papers are arranged in four sections as follows: I. 

 Constituents during development (10 papers dealing with nucleic 

 acids, sterols, (phospho) lipids, gangllosides, carbohydrates, 

 protein); II. Biochemical and morphological interrelations (11 

 papers dealing with synaptic organization and biochemistry, neu- 

 rotransmltters-excltatory and inhibitory, role of hormones, re- 

 tino-tectal connections, nuclear rlbosomes); III. Membrane for- 

 mation and function (6 papers); IV. Nutrition and brain develop- 

 ment ( 4 papers ) . 



The book is produced in offset print from typescripts, and in 

 view of this the price seems rather high. There is no author in- 

 dex or list of contributors. 



47. 



D.C. PEASE, ed. 1971. CELLULAR ASPECTS OF NEURAL GROWTH AND 

 DIFFERENTIATION 



Univ. of Calif. Press, Berkeley, etc. UCLA Forum in Med. Sciences 

 No. 14. XIV, 509 pp., 215 figs., 56 tabs., author and subject in- 

 dexes. $ 25.00, £ 11,90 



Contributors: Balasz, Bondy, Caley, Cowan, Davison, De Vellis, 

 Eiduson, Hamburgh, Herndon, Herschman, Johnson, Lajtha, Lang- 

 man, Lapham, Levi-Montalclni, Moore, Mugnaini, Roberts, 

 Shooter, Varon, Vaughn, Weston, Zamenhof 



This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held In 

 November, 1969 in Los Angeles, and sponsored by the Brain Re- 

 search Institute of UCLA. It had 38 participants, three of whom 

 oame from outside the U.S.A. More than half of the American par- 

 ticipants were from California. The volume is a veritable mine 



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