biochemistry of G2 and mitosis (Tobey et al.); radiobiology and 

 the cell cycle (Frindel and Tubiana). 



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95. 



G.CSABA. 1972. REGULATION OF MAST-CELL FORMATION 



Akademiai Kiado, Budapest. Studia Biol. Acad. Sci. Hung. 11. 



148 pp., 76 figs., 17 tabs., author and subject indexes. $ 5.20, 



£ 2.00 (paper) 



Concerned specifically with the site, induction, and mechanism 

 of mastocytopoiesis and the production of the characteristic 

 substances of mast cells; review of literature and author's 

 original research spanning a period of a dozen years; quantita- 

 tive and qualitative regulation of m.c. formation by steroids 

 and amino-acid-type hormones; discussion of m.c. system, m.c. 

 precursors, hormonal regulation, inducers and their inhibitors, 

 feedback problem, nature of m.c. as unicellular endocrine gland; 

 appendix gives author's recent results up till 1971; numerous 

 black-and-white and colour photomicrographs, reasonably repro- • 

 duced. 



96. 



D.WENDLER. 1972. DER EMBRYO-FETALE ZELLTOD WAHREND DER 



NORMOGENESE UND IM EXPERIMENT 



Habilitation dissertation, Leipzig (DDR). J.A.Barth, Leipzig. 



Acta Historica Leopoldina NF 8. 295 pp., 99 figs., 25 tabs. 



M 54.60 (paper) 



Thorough comparative study on chick, rat and man with comple- 

 mentary material of mouse and pig; histology, histochemistry, 

 vital staining, cyclophosphamide teratogenesis ; early stages and 

 almost all organ rudiments considered; 56 pages of discussion 

 against a broad embryological and biological background; 17-page 

 tabular literature survey; 47-page bibliography; numerous photo- 

 micrographs . 



Dissertations 



97. 



H.J.HOUTHOFF. 1973. ASPEKTEN VAN NEURONALE RIJPING, een histo- 

 logisch en histochemisch onderzoek van enkele facetten van de 

 ontwikkeling van het centrale en perifere zenuwstelsel van de 

 kip onder normale en experimentele omstandigheden (Aspects of 

 neuronal development, a histological and enzyme histochemical 

 investigation into some developmental features of the central 

 and peripheral nervous system of the chick under normal and ex- 

 perimental conditions) 



M.D. thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam. Vol.1, text; Vol.11, plates. 136 

 pp., 134 figs., 22 tabs. English summary (4 pp.) 



Study based on embryos, chicks and adult animals (6-120 days); 

 normal development of motor neurons in the lumbosacral spinal 

 cord, spinal ganglion cells, and sciatic nerve; effects of scia- 

 tic nerve transection at critical stages; 7 enzyme reactions 

 used throughout as markers for cytodif ferentiation; special em- 

 phasis on neuronal organelles and relationships between neurons 

 and various satellite cell types; good photomicrographs. 



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