PATHOLOGY. CANCER (no entries, buL see 20,23,25,39,46,48,56,68, 



71,72) 



REGENERATION, REPAIR, and RENEWAL (no entries, but see 19,41,79) 



0RG4N0- and HISTOGENESIS (incl. tissue and organ culture, histo- 

 chemistry) (see also 5,6,9,19,54,58,59,68,7,0,72,78) 



Treatises 



27. 



M.GABE. 1971. POLYSACCHARIDES IN LOWER VERTEBRATES 



Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. Handbuch der Histochemie Bd.II, Tell 



3. X,543 pp., 203 figs., 26 tabs., author and subject indexes, 



DM 248.00 



This monumental compilation and reference work is reviewed 

 here because lower vertebrates are the experimental material of 

 choice of many developmental biologists, and because the book 

 contains a large amount of data on the histochemistry of neutral, 

 acid, and sulfated polysaccharides during embryonic and postna- 

 tal histogenesis of many tissues and organs, discussed along 

 with the adult distribution of these substances. 



The book opens with three chapters treating epithelial, con- 

 nective and skeletal, and muscular tissues. Then follow 13 chap- 

 ters dealing with the various organ systems and some special 

 tissues. The chapter on the genital apparatus has a special sec- 

 tion on primordial germ cells, and the sections on the testis 

 and ovary are important for their treatment of spermato- and 

 oogenesis. In all these chapters the treatment is more or less 

 strictly comparative. 



The last chapter, entitled The first stages of embryonic de- 

 velopment (11 pages), deals with glycogen in the amphibian em- 

 bryo and organizer, polysaccharides in embryos of the Sauropsida 

 and in the chick yolk sac, and polysaccharides in limb develop- 

 ment and regeneration. 



The production of the book is excellent. It is illustrated 

 with a wealth of good photomicrographs, partly in colour, and 

 all of them original (!). The bibliography covers 68 pages and 

 is up-to-date until I969. 



. Monographs 



28. 



M.W.FOX. 1971. INTEGRATIVE DEVELOPMENT OP BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR IN 



THE DOG 



Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, etc. XII, 348 pp., l47 figs., 28 



tabs., author and subject indexes. £ 10.15 



Contents: 1. Introductory review: neuro-ontogeny and behav- 

 ioral development; 2. Postnatal development of reflexes and 

 organization of behavior patterns; 3. Development of EEG and 

 visually and auditorily evoked potentials; 4. Structural anc' 

 functional aspects of CNS development; 5. Developmental as- 

 pects of some conditioned and learned responses; 6. Effects of 

 differential early experience on behavioral development; 7. 

 Discussion and conclusions: integrative development of the CNS 

 and behavior 



As the autnor says in his preface "the main intention of this 

 book is to bring together recent research findings and theories 

 pertaining to the development of the brain and behavior". Al- 

 though the author has himself mainly worked on the dog, and this 

 during almost a decade, the discussions are not limited to this 



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