VIII Contents 



Session II 



Response of Calcified Tissues to Mechanical Factors 



Chairman: R. Amprino 



C. A. L. Bassett 



Electro-mechanical Factors Regulating Bone Architecture 78 



G. Marotti and F. Marotti 



Topographic-quantitative Study of Bone Tissue Formation and Reconstruction in Inert 



Bones 89 



H. Wagner 



Structure and Healing of Bone as a Response to Continuous and Discontinuous Strain 



and Stress 93 



E. D. Sedlin and L. Sonnerup 



Rheological Considerations in the Physical Properties of Bone 98 



M. Brookes 



Haemodynamic Data on the Osseous Circulation 101 



N. E. Shaw 



The Influence of Muscle Blood-flow on the Circulation in Bones 104 



Session III 



Mechanisms of Mineralization and Diseases Related to Mineral Deposition 



Chairmen: S. M. Partridge, B. Engfeldt, W. D. Armstrong, J. P. Aubert and 

 H. C. G. Bauer 



F. G. E. Pautard 



A Biomolecular Survey of Calcification 108 



L. J. RiCHELLE, C. Onkelinx and J. -P. Aubert 



Bone Mineral Metabolism in the Rat 123 



P. Lerch and C. Vuilleumier 



Physico-chemical Methods for the Identification of Microcrystalline Basic Calcium 



Phosphates Prepared in Vitro 132 



H. Newesely 



Umwandlungsvorgange bei Calciumphosphaten 136 



J. MacGregor 



Some Observations on the Nature of Bone Mineral 138 



A. Ascenzi and E. Bonucci 



The Osteon Calcification as Revealed by the Electron Microscope 142 



H. J. Hohling, H. Themann and J. Vahl 



Collagen and Apatite in Hard Tissues and Pathological Formations from a Crystal 



Chemical Point of View 146 



H. J. Arnott 



Studies of Calcification in Plants 152 



R. Lagier, C. a. Baud and M. Buchs 



Crystallographic Identification of Calcium Deposits as Regards to their Pathological 



Nature, with Special Reference to Chondrocalcinosis 158 



A. PoLiCARD, C. A. Baud, A. Collet, H. Daniel-Moussard and J. C. Martin 



Infrastructural and Crystallographic Study of Experimental Calcifications 162 



S. M. Krane and M. J. Glimcher 



Protein Phosphorus and Phosphokinases in Connective Tissue 168 



