62 OVUM IMPLANTATION 



Its hormonal, biochemical, neurophysiological 

 and immunological bases 

 1969 

 Editors: M. C. Shelesnyak and G. I. Marcus Gordon and Breach 



482 pp., 37 figs., 9 tbs. New York - London - Paris 



Price: $ 31.— 



Participants: Ayalla (Rehovoth, Israel), Billingham (Philadelphia, Pa.), Everett (Durham, 

 N.C.), Gorski (Urbana, 111.), Gruber (Rehovoth), Joshi (Rehovoth), Katsh (Denver, Colo.). 

 Kisch (Rehovoth), Kraicer (Rehovoth), Lamprecht (Rehovoth), Lindner (Rehovoth). Lobel 

 (Rehovoth), Marcus (Baltimore. Md.), Schayer (Orangeburg, N.Y.), Shelesnyak (Rehovoth), 

 C. Tachi (Rehovoth), S. Tachi (Rehovoth), Tausk (Utrecht), Von Euler (Stockholm) 

 Zmigrod (Rehovoth) 



This book embodies the proceedings ot a Workshop organized by the 

 Weiszmann Institute of Science in Rehovoth, Israel, in August 1967. It had 

 20 participants, 12 from Israel, 6 from the U.S.A., and one each from Holland 

 and Sweden. The scope of the Workshop was wider than is suggested by 

 the title. Many endocrinological, neurophysiological, biochemical and im- 

 nunological aspects of reproductive physiology are touched upon, such as 

 the role of histamine, ot adrenergic neurotransmitter, of estrogen and pro- 

 gesterone, and the influence of the diencephalon. Only one of the papers 

 is actually concerned with the early embryo itself rather than with the uterus 

 or reproduction generally: this is the one by Billingham entitled "Trans- 

 plantation immunity and the mammalian embryo". 



Most of the papers are comprehensive reviews and discuss the historical 

 development of the subject in question as well as the most recent advances. 

 All papers are followed by extensive discussions which are rendered verbatim, 

 and to which literature references were added later. There is a concluding 

 summary of the Workshop by M. Tausk. 



The book is produced in offset print; it has few illustrations. Considering 

 this, the price is excessive. There is a subject index, but no author index or 

 index to participants, which would have been useful particularly with a view 

 to the lengthy discussions. 



63 CONTROL OF CELLULAR GROWTH 



IN ADULT ORGANISMS 

 1967 

 Editors: H. Teir and T. Rytomaa Academic Press 



457 pp., 132 figs.. 50 tbs. London - New York 



A Sigrid Juselius Found. Symposium Price: 100 s. 



Contributors: Alexander (London), Alho (Helsinki). Bade (Mendoza), Bolden (Nashville, 

 Tenn.). Brenner (Helsinki), BuUough (London), Claude (Brussels), Craddock (Los Angeles, 

 Calif.), Duplan (Paris), Behave Llanos (Mendoza), Elgjo (Oslo), Fichtelius (Uppsala), Forsell 

 (Helsinki), Glinos (Washington, D.C.), Goss (Providence, R.I.), Grundmann (Wuppertal), 

 Guelstein (Moscow), Haddow (London). Holsti (Helsinki). Iversen (Oslo). Jalavisto (Helsinki), 

 Kekomaki (Helsinki). Kiviniemi (Helsinki), Lahtiharju (Helsinki). Lajtha (Manchester). Larsen 

 (Bergen), Laurence (London). Lawrence (Los Angeles, Calif.), Linna (Uppsala), Littbrand 

 (Stockholm), Matsuyuki (Los Angeles, Calif.). Modig (Stockholm), Perttala (Helsinki), Rabes 

 (Heidelberg), Rasanen (Helsinki), Renkonen (Helsinki). Revesz (Stockholm), Rytomaa (Hel- 

 sinki), Smithers (London), Teir (Helsinki). Tumanishvili (Tbilissi), Vasiliev (Moscow), 

 Virolainen (Helsinki). Weiss (Houston, Tex.). Wikgren (Turku), Winkelstein (Los Angeles. 

 Calif.), Wrba (Heidelberg) 



Although the Symposium of which this book is the report was held four years 

 ago, it is thought still to be of sufficient interest to be reviewed. The Symposium 



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