34 SYMPOSIUM ON DIFFERENTIATION AND GROWTH OF 

 HEMOGLOBIN- AND IMMUNOGLOBULIN-SYNTHESIZING CELLS 



1966 



Edited by: Biology Division, The Wistar Institute of 



Oak Ridge National Laboratory Anatomy and Biology 



234 pp., 87 figs., 26 tbs. Philadelphia, Pa. 

 (paper-bound) 



Contributors: Albright (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Baglioni (Naples), Bennett (Pasadena, Calif.), 

 Braunitzer (Munich), Brumby (Melbourne), Itano (Bethesda, Md.), Koshland (Berkeley, 

 Calif.), Lajtha (Manchester), Makinodan (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Metcalf (Melbourne), Mu- 

 rayama (Bethesda, Md.), Oudin (Paris), Owen (Pasadena, Calif.), Porter (London), Sainte- 

 Marie (London, Canada), Simic (Beograd), Weir (London) 



This supplement to vol. 67 of J. Cell. Physiol, contains the proceedings of 

 a symposium held at Gatlinburg, Tenn. in April 1966. It was devoted to parallel 

 discussions of two of the most thoroughly studied differentiating systems, the 

 hemoglobin-synthesizing and the antibody-globulin-synthesizing cell systems 

 in the vertebrate body. The discussions penetrate to the level of biochemical 

 and genetic regulation. 



Owing to the specialized nature of the symposium we will not review the 

 13 papers and the attendant group discussions extensively, but simply state 

 that the report will be read with profit by all those who are interested in the 

 sophisticated analysis of cellular differentiation. Bennett and Owen have 

 contributed a concluding paper which serves as a summary of the whole sym- 

 posium. 



35 THE SPECIFICITY OF CELL SURFACES 



1967 

 Editors: B. D. Davis and L. Warren Prentice-Hall, Inc. 



300 pp., 81 figs., 38 tbs. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 



Price: $ 10.25 



Contributors: Brinton (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Click (Philadelphia, Pa.), Humphreys (Cambridge, 

 Mass.), Ito (Boston, Mass.), Keller (Cambridge. Mass.), Klein (Stockholm), Law (Chicago, 

 III.), Nass (Philadelphia, Pa.), Nikaido (Boston, Mass.), Pressman (Buffalo, N.Y.), Revel 

 (Boston, Mass.), Robbins (Cambridge, Mass.), Rubin (Berkeley, Calif.), Salton (New York, 

 N.Y.), Wallach (Boston, Mass.), Warren (Philadelphia, Pa.), Watkins (London) 



Inasmuch as cellular interactions play an important role in morphogenesis 

 and differentiation, the present report should prove to be of interest to all those 

 working in this field. The book embodies the 13 papers read at a Symposium 

 held under the auspices of the Society of General Physiologists in Woods Hole, 

 Mass. in September 1965. Of the 17 contributors, 15 came from the U.S.A., 

 one from Sweden and one from England. 



The discussions following the papers are not recorded. The papers are 

 grouped in three sections, entitled respectively: "Bacterial cell walls and mem- 

 branes" (5 papers); "Animal cell membranes" (6 papers), and "The molecular 

 basis of complementarity" (2 papers). Several papers deal v/ith technical pro- 

 cedures for the isolation of cell membranes. One of the two papers in section 

 III is a review of the structural basis of immunological specificity by D. Press- 

 man, introduced as a model of cell binding. Other papers of more direct interest 

 to developmental biologists are a paper by H. Rubin on the behaviour of 

 normal and malignant cells in tissue culture, one by T. Humphreys on specific 

 cell aggregation in sponges, and one by J. -P. Revel and S. Ito on the surface 

 components of cells as seen with the electron microscope. 



The quality of the photographs and electron micrographs present in the 

 book is reasonable, though by no means excellent. The book is concluded by 

 a combined author-subject index. 



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