46. 



W.W.McCRORY. 1972. DEVELOPMENTAL NEPHROLOGY 



Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA. A Commonwealth Fund Book. XIV, 216 pp., 



31 figs., 9 pis., 16 tabs., subject index. $ 12.-, £4.50 



Contents: 1. Embryologic development of the kidney; 2. Development of renal func- 

 tion in utero; 3. Quantitative measurement of renal function during growth in infancy 

 and childhood; 4. Renal function in the postnatal period; 5. Cellular processes under- 

 lying growth and development of the kidney 



This scholarly monograph is interesting not only for clinicians but also for bio-medical 

 scientists. Although it emphasizes the human kidney, its basis is broadly biological. It lays 

 the modern foundation needed for experimental work on a great variety of subjects. 

 Particular stress is placed on the possible causes of renal maldevelopment and malfunc- 

 tion, and on the roles of compensatory hyperplasia and hypertrophy and the significance 

 of the "renal work load" (particularly in chapter 5). Gross structure as well as cellular 

 structure, function and organization are considered. 



In ch.l the author draws heavily on J.Oliver's monograph Nephrons and Kidneys 

 (1968). Nine plates from this book, illustrating early stages of human kidney develop- 

 ment based on microdissection, are reproduced at the end of the chapter. Ch.5 has 

 sections on changes in renal enzymes, nucleic acids, and proteins, and on the subjects 

 mentioned in the first paragraph above. 



The book is beautifully printed and well illustrated. The literature is considered up to 

 1970 (ca. 360 titles). 



47. 



E.PANNESE. 1974. THE HISTOGENESIS OF THE SPINAL GANGLIA 



Springer, Berlin, etc. Advan. Anat. Embryol. Cell Biol. Vol. 47, 5. 97 pp., 25 figs., subject 

 index 



Review based on original studies on the chick embryo and an analysis of the literature; 

 light and electron microscopy; origin of organelles; RNA and AChE; cell junctions; 

 mitosis and neuronal differentiation; cell degeneration; satellite cells, etc.; good diagrams 

 and original electron micrographs; 17-page bibliography. 



48. 



N.A.SMITTEN. 1972. THE SYMPATHO-ADRENAL SYSTEM IN THE PHYLO- AND 



ONTOGENESIS OF VERTEBRATES (in Russian) 



Izdat. Nauka, Moscow. 347 pp., 119 figs. 



Part one: Comparative morphology in 6 vertebrate classes; Part two: Ontogenesis- 1. 

 development and recapitulation; 2. differentiation; 3. functional morphology and secre- 

 tory cycles; 4. main trends in evolution. Bibliography of 33 pp. (8 pp. of Russian titles). 



49. 



F.VANPEPERSTRAETE. 1973. THE CARTILAGINOUS SKELETON OF THE BRON- 

 CHIAL TREE 



Springer, Berlin, etc. Advan. Anat. Embryol. Cell Biol. Vol. 48, Part 3. 80 pp., 42 figs., 

 6 tabs. 



Contains a chapter (8 pp.) on 30 human fetal lungs from week 7 till week 24; emphasis 

 on cartilage differentiation (weeks 11-14); Lundvall cartilage stain and histology; brief 

 theoretical discussion of morphogenesis. 



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