A. J. PUERTA FONOLLA. 1975. CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE DEVEL- 

 OPMENT OF THE SINUS VENOSUS AND ITS ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES, AND 

 ITS LATER ABSORPTION BY THE AURICLE (in Spanish) 

 M.D. thesis, Madrid. 121 pp., 277 figs., mimeographed 



Study using human embryos of O'Rahilly stages 11-17 (3.5-11 mm.); numerous 

 micrographs, dissections and reconstructions of the heart. 



Symposium reports 



89. 



D. BERGSMA, J. LANGMAN, and N.W.PAUL, eds. 1975. MORPHOGENESIS AND 



MALFORMATION OF FACE AND BRAIN 



A. R. Liss, New York. The National Foundation — March of Dimes-Birta Defects: 

 Original Article Series Vol. XI, No. 7. XII, 364 pp., 156 figs., 22 tabs., subject index. 

 $ 30.00 



This conference was held at Airlie House, Virg. in June 1974 and brought together 20 

 specialists from North America and six from various other countries. They were both 

 basic scientists and cUnicians and the topics discussed covered a broad range of descrip- 

 tive, interpretative, experimental and clinical work in man and a variety of animals. 



The 21 papers are research reports or reviews of recent work. A few are very short, 

 while three of the full-length papers are exclusively of clinical interest. Seven of the 

 papers are followed by group discussions. 



The book is well produced and very well illustrated. 



90. 



L. JILEK and S. TROJAN, eds. 1974. ONTOGENESIS OF THE BRAIN. Vol. 2. 

 The biochemical, functional and structural development of the nervous system. 

 Universita Karlova, Praha. Proceedings of the International symposium Neuroontogeneti- 

 cum Secundum. 483 pp., 228 figs., 12 tabs., author and subject indexes. 



This symposium was held in Prague in July 1973 as a sequel to the symposium with 

 the same title published in 1968. Many of those attending the earlier symposium were 

 again present. Attendance was largely European, with a predominance of workers from 

 Eastern Europe (particularly Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Russia). Most contribu- 

 tions are brief research reports. 



No less than 49 papers are grouped in six sections as follows: Prenatal ontogeny (8 

 papers). Brain hypoxia during ontogeny (6), Determinants of the postnatal development 

 of the central nervous system (13), Development of behavior (7), Electrogenesis of the 

 brain (8), and Metabolism of the developing brain (7). In section 1 most of the papers 

 report on studies on avian embryos, while the other sections deal mostly with later stages 

 of mammals and man. 



The book is profusely illustrated; the many photographic illustrations are not always 

 optimally reproduced. 



91. 



A. T. MILHORAT, ed. 1974. EXPLORATORY CONCEPTS IN MUSCULAR DYSTRO- 

 PHY. II, Control mechanisms in development and function of muscle and their relation- 

 ship to muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular diseases 



Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam; Amer. Elsevier, New York. XVIII, 664 pp., 340 figs., 

 84 tabs., subject index. $ 56.25, Dfl. 135.00 



In this volume at least ten contributions, mostly by American authors, are of direct 

 interest to those working on cell differentiation and myogenesis, and on nerve influences 



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