58 TERATOLOGY 



1969 



Editors: A. Bertclli and L. Donati Excerpta Medica Foundation 



240 pp., 161 figs., 43 tbs. Amsterdam 



Price: $ 15.— 



Contributors: Beck (Cardiff), Bellairs (London), Bertelli (Milan), Bertolini (Modena), 

 Cook (Taplow, Maidenhead), Del Porto (Rome), De Meyer (Louvain), De Plaen (Louvain). 

 Donati (Milan), Done (Weybridge), Fairweather (Taplow, Maidenhead), Ferrari (Modena), 

 Gedda (Rome), Giordano (Milan), Grauwiler (Basel), Harding (Weybridge), Hardwick 

 (Taplow, Maidenhead), Kassabov (Sofia), Konstantinova (Sofia), Leone (Milan), Lloyd 

 (Cardiff), Mascherpa (Pavia), McKenzie (Aberdeen), Neukomm (Lausanne), Ohre Nielson 

 (Oslo), Palludan (Copenhagen), Palmer (Huntingdon), Rinaldi (Parma), Tondury (Zurich), 

 Tuchmann-Duplessis (Paris), Vichi (Florence), Von Kreybig (Tiibingen), Weber (Berne) 



This book contains the papers presented at a Symposium organized by 

 the Itahan Society of Experimental Teratology in Como, in October 1967. 

 The attendance was all-European, and a broad range of subjects was covered. 

 The discussions are not recorded. 



The 23 papers are arranged in four sections as follows: I. Teratogenic 

 activity tests (5 papers); II. Teratogenic action of pharmaceutical and 

 chemical agents (7); III. Biochemical mechanisms of teratogenesis (7); 

 IV. Congenital malformations (4). Section I opens with a paper by Neukomm 

 on the use of the regenerating urodele tail as a screening system. Section III 

 contains a paper by Weber on the mechanism of tissue destruction during 

 anuran metamorphosis, and one by Bellairs on experimental twinning and 

 multiple monsters in chick embryos. Section IV deals entirely with human 

 malformations. All other contributions are concerned with work on various 

 birds and mammals. 



The book is well printed and well illustrated. It has a subject index and 

 an index to Symposium contributors (erroneously called author index). 



59 EFFECTS OF RADIATION ON CELLULAR 

 PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION 



1968 



Edited by I A E A Internat. Atomic Energy Agency 

 570 pp., 219 figs., 58 tbs. Vienna 



(paper-bound) Price: $ 13.50 



This is the report of a Symposium held in Monaco in April 1968. It was 

 attended by more than 100 scientists from 20 countries. Of the 40 papers 

 read 36 are in English, three in French, and one in Russian. All papers have 

 English abstracts. The discussions following the papers are included. 



Attention was focused on the radiobiology of cell renewal systems, with 

 particular emphasis on characterizing the properties, responses and poten- 

 tialities of the haemopoietic stem cells under normal and abnormal conditions. 

 Complementary studies were presented on tumour cells and intestinal cells 

 and their response to irradiation. In addition, biochemical considerations of 

 injury and repair in mammalian cell systems v/ere examined. 



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

 a list of participants and an index to contributors and discussants. 



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