Symposium reports 



66. 



D. NEUBERT and H. J. MERKER, eds. 1975. NEW APPROACHES TO THE EVALUA- 

 TION OF ABNORMAL EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT 



Thieme, Stuttgart. XVI, 828 pp., 321 figs., 99 tabs., subject index. DM 49.00 



This symposium was held in Berlin in September 1975 and publication has therefore 

 been extremely rapid. It was organised by the Workgroup for Embryonic Development 

 and Embryonic Pharmacology at the Free University, Berlin and most of its members 

 took part. Of the 130 participants more than 100 came from West Germany. The 55 

 contributions are brief to medium-length research reports or reviews of recent work, all of 

 them in English. 



The papers are grouped in nine sections as follows: Tools for teratological research (5 

 papers), Use of organ culture systems for teratological research (13 papers, most of which 

 deal with cultured mammahan limb buds), Pharmacokinetics in teratological research (4), 

 Genetic aspects of teratological research (4), Studies on early stages of embryonic 

 development (3), Postnatal manifestations of prenatal lesions (7), Mechanisms of embryo- 

 toxic effects (biochemical approaches) (7), Mechanisms of embryotoxic effects (morpho- 

 logical approaches) (7), and Mechanisms of differentiation (5). 



The papers are reproduced directly from typescript. The numerous photographic 

 illustrations are well reproduced. 



DEVELOPMENTAL PATHOLOGY, CANCER (see also 36,45,51,66) 



Monographs 



67. 



N.G.ANDERSON. 1975. EMBRYONALENTWICKLUNG, RETROGENESE UND 



KREBS 



Fr. Steiner, Wiesbaden. Akad. der Wissensch. und der Literatur, Mainz, Math.-Naturw. 

 Klasse, Karl-August-Forster- Lectures, Inform ationsgesteuerte Synthese 11. 44 pp., 5 figs., 

 2 tabs. 



Lecture on embryonic auto-antigens and cancer held in English in 1973; prospect of 

 cancer research; extensive discussion in English. 



Symposium reports 



68. 



R. A. CAMERINI-DAVALOS and H. S. COLE, eds. 1975. EARLY DIABETES IN EAR- 

 LY LIFE 



Academic Press, New York, etc. XXIV, 615 pp., 135 figs., 147 tabs., subject index. 



$ 25.00 



This international symposium was held in Madeira in December 1974 and was 

 attended by many specialists in the field, both established and younger ones. Its subject 

 matter is primarily of interest to clinicians, but the first half of the book contains much 

 that may be of importance to those interested in fetal nutrition and endocrinology and in 

 the functions of the placenta. All the papers briefly describe or review recent work. 



The first part, which we consider here only, has sections on Embryogenesis, differen- 

 tiation, and functional maturation (2 papers). The fetal pancreas (7), Fetal endocrine 

 development (5), Nutritional factors during fetal development (6), and The placenta (8). 

 Each section moreover contains a lengthy group discussion. 



The book is well produced in small but readable offset print. It is iUustrated almost 

 exclusively with graphic material. 



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