69. 



L. V. POLEZHAEV. 1977. REGENERATION BY INDUCTION (in Russian) 



Meditsina, Moscow. 184 pp., 82 figs. English summary. IR 58K (paper) 



Summary of experiments by the author and other (mainly Russian) investigators on 

 cranial vault, dental tissue and cardiac muscle in mammals; new data obtained with auto- 

 radiography and diffusion chambers; inducing factors and their nature; origin of regenera- 

 tion cells; light micrographs and some electron micrographs of mostly reasonable quality; 

 16-page bibliography (1 1 pp. Russian- much older literature, most recent titles 1975/'76). 



ORGANOGENESIS, HISTOGENESIS (incl. tissue and organ culture, histochemistry) (see 



also 27,59,67,86,88,90,96) 



Treatises 



70. 



G. GOTTLIEB, ed. 1976. NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL SPECIFICITY 



Academic Press, New York, etc. Studies on the Development of Behavior and the Nervous 

 System, vol. 3. XX, 352 pp., 48 figs., 21 tabs., author and subject indexes. $ 28.50 



Contributors: Chow, Daniels, Gottlieb, Grobstein, Keating, Lippe, Meyer, Pettigrew, 

 Sperry, Tees 



The two previous volumes of this series were reviewed in Gen. Embryol. Inf. Serv. 15. 

 2, 1975. The present book is divided into four sections and an epilogue by the editor. 

 Section 1 is entitled Historical and theoretical aspects and has two chapters. In a brief 

 introduction the editor points out that the nativism - empiricism controversy, reformu- 

 lated as a developmental problem, plays a role in all the chapters of the book. 



Section 2, entitled Neurospecificity: Chemoaffinity theory, has chapters by Keating 

 and by Meyer and Sperry, in which the problems of visual neuronal connectivity in lower 

 vertebrates and mammals are reviewed from slightly differing perspectives. This section is 

 of greatest interest to embryologists. Sections 3 and 4 are called Neurospecificity: Exper- 

 ience, and Behavioral specificity and have two chapters each. They deal with visual and 

 auditory perception in developing birds and mammals. 



Textbooks 



71. 



H. E. SCHROEDER. 1976. OR ALE STRUKTURBIOLOGIE, Entwicklungsgeschichte, 



Struktur und Funktion normaler Hart- und Weichgewebe der Mundhohle 



Thieme, Stuttgart. XII, 368 pp., 117 figs., 22 tabs., subject index. DM 24.80 (paper) 



This text for dental students is written from a modern point of view, in which develop- 

 ment, cell differentiation, cell biology and structure form an integrated whole. It could 

 therefore be of interest to those biologists who are starting work on tooth development 

 and related subjects. 



Special features of the book are its numerous excellent line drawings (many with colour) 

 and the chapter bibliographies consisting of carefully selected older and recent references 

 from the world literature. 



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