Monographs 

 105. 



S.SAKAMOTO et ol . 1911. ADAPTATION MECHANISM IN THE FETUS, WITH SPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO FETAL ENDOCRINOLOGY 



Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Acta Obstet. Gynecol, Scand. suppl.63. 

 19 pp., 24 figs., 2 tabs. 



Summary of the authors' recent work on the human fetus; original graphs, 

 tables and micrographs. 



106. 



O.J.WJASOW and W . M . BARABANOW , eds. 1978. GRUNDLAGEN DER IMMUNEMBRYOLOGIE , 

 translated from the Russian by B.Remus 

 Fischer, Jena. 202 pp., 52 figs., 36 tabs., subject index. M.87.00 



Contents: 1. Gegenwartige Vorstellungen iiber die immunologische Reaktivi- 

 tat (Werbitzky) , 2. Entwicklung der antigenen Struktur des Auges in der 

 Embryogenese (Barabanow, Michailow) , 3. Entwicklung der antigenen Struktur 

 der Niere in der Embryogenese (Awerkina) , 4. Die morphogenetische Rolle 

 der Gewebsantigene (Wjasow, Titowa) , 5. Besonderheiten der iramunologischen 

 Regulation der Embryogenese bei Saugetieren und beim Menschen (Werbitzky) 



This is the translation of a book published in Russian in 1973. The name 

 of the first editor, who wrote a book on immunoembryology in 1962, is usual- 

 ly transliterated in the West as O.E.Vyasov. He is one of the outstanding 

 authorities in this field in the U.S.S.R. Obviously the main importance of 

 the book is that it provides an entry into the older Russian literature. The 

 bibliography contains some 350 titles, about one third of which are Russian; 

 many of these are books and dissertations. 



We make the following annotations with the table of contents. Ch.l has 

 sections on the phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of immunological 

 reactivity and on the ontogenesis of specific cellular reactions. Ch.2 has 

 a section on tissue antigens of the retina. Ch.3 deals with frogs, chickens, 

 mammals and man. Ch.5 contains much information of clinical importance. 



The book is mainly illustrated with photographs. The bibliography is dis- 

 figured by numerous printing and transliteration errors. 



Symposium reports 



107. 



R.E.BILLINGHAM and A. E. BEER, chairmen. 1977. THE JOY PALM MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM; 



IMMUNOLOGIC ASPECTS OF THE MATERNAL-FETAL RELATIONSHIP 



Grune & Stratton, New York, etc. Transplantation Proceedings, vol.JZj 2. 



138 pp., 38 figs., 37 tabs. 



This symposium was held in New York in August 1976. Apart from a 5-page 

 introduction by the chairmen, the 18 contributions are brief reviews or 

 research reports, the latter usually either preliminary communications or 

 extensions of previously published work. At least half of the papers are of 

 interest to mammalian immuno-embryologists. Most of their authors are Ameri- 

 can, some English. Some other papers may be of marginal interest to our 

 readers. ' 



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