Dissertations 



52. 



I.S.MARKENS. 1974. DE EMBRYONALE ONTWIKKELING VAN DE SUTURA CORO- 



NARIA BIJ DE MENS EN DE RAT EN ENIGE EIGENSCHAPPEN VAN DIT WEEFSEL 



(The embryonic development of the coronal suture in man and rat and some of its 



structural properties) 



M.D. thesis, Utrecht. 66 pp., 23 figs. English summary (2 pp.) 



Description of a sutural blastema in human and rat fetal skulls; transplantation of rat 

 presumptive coronal suture area to exposed dura mater of adult rats, resulting in 

 autonomous suture formation. 



53. 



J.G.J. VISSER. 1972. ONTOGENY OF THE CHONDROCRANIUM OF THE CHAMAE- 



LEON, MICROSAURA PUMILA PUMILA (DAUDIN) 



Ph.D. thesis, Stellenbosch. Ann. Univ. Stellenbosch 47, serie A No. 2, 68 pp., 49 figs. 



Descriptive study based on material of nine stages ranging from the blastematous/ 

 procartilaginous to the adult condition; extensive discussion; numerous photomicrographs 

 and reconstructions. 



Symposium reports 



54. 



D.H.FORD, ed. 1973. NEUROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MATURATION AND 



AGING 



Elsevier, Amsterdam, etc. Progress in Brain Research 40. XII, 529 pp., 328 figs., 84 tabs., 

 subject index and index to contributors. D.fl. 175.—, ca. $ 64.00 



This volume embodies the 35 papers presented at an ail-American symposium (only 

 one contributor from outside the U.S.A.) held in Brooklyn, N.Y. in June, 1972. The 

 subjects discussed relate to the origin, differentiation, morphology, and particularly the 

 biochemistry of nerve and glial cells of the (mainly postnatal) mammalian CNS and of the 

 CNS as a tissue. 



At least a dozen papers are of direct interest to those working on the development of 

 the nervous system; the remainder deal with aging, pathology, and miscellaneous subjects. 

 The range of biochemical aspects covered is very broad. Electrophysiological aspects are 

 not considered except in one theoretical paper. 



Most of the papers are research reports or mixtures of review and research material. An 

 important review by Ordy and Schjeide is devoted to univariate and multivariate models 

 for evaluating long-term changes in neurobiological development, maturity and aging 

 (18 pp.). 



The book is well printed and very well illustrated, but the luxurious production has 

 resulted in a much too high price. 



55. 



J.I.NURNBERGER, ed. 1973. BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMI- 

 NANTS OF EARLY DEVELOPMENT 



Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. Res. Publ. Assoc, for Research in Nervous and Mental 

 Disease, Vol. 5 1, XII,457 pp., 1 1 1 figs., 40 tabs., subject index. 



This symposium was held in New York in December, 1971. All of the 22 papers by 

 leading experts are in some way concerned with the mammalian nervous system, the 



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