Monographs 



72. 



R. CHANDEBOIS. 1976. HISTOGENESIS AND MORPHOGENESIS IN PLANARIAN 



REGENERATION 



Karger, Basel, etc. Monographs in Developmental Biology 11. VIII, 182 pp., 50 figs., 

 I tab., no indexes. Sfr./DM 90.00; ca. U.S. $ 34.75 (paper) 



This monograph is essentially a summary and discussion of work carried out by the 

 author and her associates at the University of Marseille for a quarter of a century. The 

 first part, on histogenesis, contains a wealth of highly unorthodox findings culminating in 

 a challenge of the current "neoblast" concept: these cells would in reaUty represent a 

 thymus-like system involved in the organism's defense reactions; their role in regeneration 

 would be exclusively trophic. 



Part two reconsiders the current concepts of morphogenesis in adult planarians on the 

 basis of what the author calls the "cell transformation system" of the flatworm. Much 

 attention is also devoted to "distalisation" and the role of wound healing in it, and to 

 intercalary regeneration, a subject usually associated mainly with insect appendages. 



Much of the older literature cited is seen in an entirely new light. No one working on 

 or mterested in planarian regeneration can afford not to read this highly stimulating 

 book. 



73. 



L. D. LIOZNER. 1975. FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS IN REGENERATION (in Rus- 

 sian) 

 Izd. Nauka, Moscow. 103 pp., 28 figs. 



Extended review of all major descriptive, comparative and experimental aspects of 

 regeneration in the animal kingdom (7 chapters); selected references (123 Russian till 

 1973; 86 foreign tm 1972). 



74. 



J. K. McGEACHIE. 1975. SMOOTH MUSCLE REGENERATION, a review and expen- 



mental study 



Karger, Basel, etc. Monographs in Developmental Biology Vol. 9. X, 90 pp., 39 figs., 



7 tabs. SFr. 55.00, $ 20.00, DM 52.00, £ 8.00 (paper) 



This is a very thorough study of the regeneration of the taeniae of the guinea pig 

 caecum after a locaUzed small crush injury. The parameters studied were cell population 

 changes (quantitative light microscopy), DNA synthesis (autoradiography), and ultra- 

 structure. The conclusion from the results is quite clear: smooth muscle cells adjacent to 

 the lesion divide by mitosis to produce a population of self-generating myoblasts. 



The actual research report is preceded by a lengthy literature review organized by 

 organ systems. The book has good light and electron micrographs. 



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