The book is illustrated with good line drawings but there are no photo- 

 graphs. The bibliography covers 48 closely printed pages and is up to date 



until 1975. 



77. 



D.R.GARROD, ed. 1978. SPECIFICITY OF EMBRYOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS 

 Chapman and Hall, London. Receptors and Recognition Series B, vol.4. 

 XII, 274 pp., 64 figs., subject index. £ 15.00 



Contributors: Barondes, Curtis, Gaze, Hermolin, Lilien, Lipke, Noden, 

 Rosen, Steinberg, Turner 



This book is not about interactions among embryologists , as suggested by 

 the title, but about specific cell adhesion and the resultant cell position- 

 ing in development. It is a collection of authoritative, critical and well- 

 organised reviews on a broad, though not exhaustive range of aspects of the 

 problem. The discussions are both descriptive and analytical and up to date 

 till the last moment. Most authors draw heavily on their own research but 

 place it in a broader perspective. 



Some chapters have a pronounced theoretical slant, notably those by Gaze 

 (nerve connections) , Steinberg (cell ligands and differential adhesion) and 

 Curtis (the "morphogen" theory of cell positioning) . These chapters will be 

 required reading for all those working themselves in these fields. 



The first two chapters deal with specific cell positioning in vivo - of 

 neural crest cells and in the nervous system, respectively. Chs.3-5 discuss 

 the adhesion and sorting of cultured cells, while the last two chapters con- 

 centrate on two model systems, the sponges and the cellular slime moulds. 



The volume is well produced and illustrated. (A final remark on the title: 

 there are many more kinds of cell interactions than those discussed here; 

 and why do so many writers these days use "embryological" instead of the 

 perfectly unambiguous adjective "embryonic"?) 



78. 



E.A.LURIYA. 1977. HEMATOPOIETIC AND LYMPHOID TISSUE IN CULTURE, translated 



from the Russian by B.Haigh 



Consultants Bureau (Plenum, Nev; York, etc.). Studies in Soviet Science - Life 



Sciences. XIV, 181 pp., 47 figs., 14 tabs. $ 42.00, E 22.05 



Contents (abridged): I. Hematopoietic tissue in vitro; II. Possibilities 

 of differentiation of cells grown in hematopoietic tissue cultures on re- 

 transplantation in vivo; III. Lymphoid tissue in vitro ; IV. Immunological 

 functions of lymphoid tissue in vitro ; V. Cell lines in lymphoid and he- 

 matopoietic tissue 



This book was published in Russian in 1972 but was revised for this trans- 

 lation. The main part of the book presents the results of organ and mono- 

 layer culture of lymphoid and hematopoietic tissue (including stromal mecha- 

 nocytes) obtained by the author and her collaborators (notably A.Ya.Fri- 

 denshtein) at the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow. These are placed in histori- 

 cal perspective and discussed mainly against the background of other work 

 in the USSR. 



An appendix specially written for this edition by Luriya and Fridenshtein 

 provides valuable technical and methodological information on work carried 

 out recently at the above institute, particularly the cloning of fibroblasts 

 in monolayer culture and the culturing of various organs. 



The book is well produced and illustrated with good line drawings and pho- 

 tographs. The bibliography contains some 350 titles, about 30 of which (by 

 both Russian and non-Russian authors) are more recent than 1972; there is no 

 way of telling which papers are in Russian. 



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