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CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE. 



1970. Edited by O. C. JAFFEE 



University of Dayton Press, Dayton, Ohio. 168 pp., 97 figs., 8 tabs., subject index. $ 9.00 



Contributors: Goerttler, Jaffee, G. LeDouarin, N. LeDouarin, Nihill, Nora, Patten, Patter- 

 son, Shaner, Sissman, Van Mierop, Vargo 



This book contains the 12 papers read at an international Symposium held in Dayton, 

 Ohio in June 1968. The Symposium had an attendance of 41. Among the contributors were five 

 pediatricians, three biologists, two anatomists, one pathologist, and one veterinarian. 



The earliest stages of heart development were not considered. Most papers deal with the 

 functional embryonic heart in man, pig, and chick. Various structural, functional, electrophy- 

 siological, teratological, and genetical aspects are discussed. One paper describes epidemiolo- 

 gical work. Three papers (one each by Patten, Shaner, and Patterson) are little more than 

 abstracts, but some of the others are quite extensive (up to 28 pages). All papers are in 

 English. The discussions held at the Symposium are not recorded. 



The book is produced in offset print and is adequately illustrated. 



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INTERCELLULAR INTERACTIONS IN DIFFERENTIATION AND GROWTH (in Russian). 1970. 



Edited by G. V. LOPASHOV, N. N. ROTT, and G. D. TUMANISHVILI 



Publishing House Nauka, Moscow. 256 pp., 113 figs., 13 tabs. 



Contributors: Belousov, Bozhkova, Buznikov, Campbell, Dettlaff, Dyban, Friedenstein, 

 Gurdon, Ivanov, Konyshev, Kvinihidze, Lopashov, Rott, Salamatina, Stroeva, Tarkowski, 

 Toivonen, Tumanishvili, Yazykov 



This book is in Russian and is announced only briefly. It contains the proceedings of a 

 Symposium held in Tbilissi (Tiflis) in November 1968. Among the contributors were two from 

 Great Britain and one each from Poland and Finland. 



The 19 papers read range in length from about 10 to about 20 pages, and are followed by 

 brief discussions. Some are mainly theoretical, others describe work performed on a variety of 

 developing systems, sometimes with sophisticated methods. 



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TISSUE METAPLASIA (in Russian). 1970. Edited by M. S. MITSKEVICH, O. G. STROEVA, and 



V. I. MITASHOV 



Publishing House Nauka, Moscow. 198 pp., 86 figs., 2 tabs, (paper) 



Contributors: Fridenshtejn, Khrushchov, Levander, Lopashov, Makarov, Mikhajlov, Novak, 

 Polezhaev, Stroeva, Vakhtin 



This book is in Russian and contains the proceedings of a Symposium held in Moscow in 

 September/ October, 1968. The ten papers discuss various aspects of tissue metaplasia in ver- 

 tebrates, and their relationships with embryonic and postembryonic processes of induction. 

 Three papers deal with blood cells, one with pigmented eye tissues, and one with cell cloning 

 in vivo. 



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HAIR GROWTH. 1969. Edited by W. MONTAGNA and R. L. DOBSON 



Pergamon Press, Oxford. Advances in biology of skin, vol. IX. 601 pp., 369 figs., 63 tabs. 



Author and subject indexes. SBN 08 012967 6. $ 21.50, £ 8.— 



Although the Symposium of which this volume is the report took place as long ago as 1967, 

 we feel the book is important enough still to be briefly reviewed. We will limit ourselves to 

 those contributions which we consider to be of particular interest to developmental biologists 

 (nine out of a total of 35). 



The first five contributions explicitly deal with problems of hair and feather development: 

 J. Cohen on interactions of dermis, epidermis and dermal papillae in the chick (18 pp.); R. F. 



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