Annotated Reading List 



Bisele, John J., 1958. "Mitotic Poisons and The Cancer Problem," Elsevier 

 Press, 214 pp. 



This book is an excellent review of the literature on the observed effects of 

 treating tissues, containing cells in the process of division, with various 

 chemicals. The first two chapters attempt to define and classify mitotic 

 poisons and the first part of Chapter 3 provides a comparatively simple but 

 excellent discussion of the biochemical and physiological activities in inter- 

 phase pertinent to mitosis. Classification of antimitotics is provided both 

 in terms of observed action and type of chemical. 



Bourne, G. H. (Ed.), 1951. "Cytology and Cell Physiology," 2nd ed., Oxford 

 University Press, Oxford, 524 pp. 



This book, while somewhat outdated, still remains a very valuable and 

 well-documented text. It is recommended to the beginning student not only 

 as a useful reference source of the cytological literature up to 1951, but 

 also because it probably represents one of the first serious attempts to 

 integrate cell morphology and biochemical function. A number of investi- 

 gators have contributed to the volume, to cover a wide range of topics 

 such as cytological methods, physical and physicochemical studies of cells, 

 the cell surface and cell physiology, nucleus, chromosomes and genes, and 

 the mitochondria and Golgi complex, to mention only a few. Attention is 

 also directed to the final chapter of the book dealing with some aspects 

 of evolutionary cytology. 



Brachet, J., 1957. "Biochemical Cytology," Academic Press, New York, 



N.Y., 516 pp. 



This is a rather advanced treatise concerned almost entirely with various 

 aspects of cell chemistry, including the chemistry and physiological func- 

 tion of cell organelles. There is a particularly good discussion (Chapter 

 VI) of the role of the nucleic acids in heredity and protein synthesis, and 

 some rather interesting analyses (Chapter VIII) of the nucleus and cyto- 

 plasmic differentiation during animal embryogeny. There are many refer- 

 ences to original papers, mostly from 1950 to 1955. The book presupposes 

 considerable knowledge of morphology on the part of the reader since, 

 except for some discussion of fine structure as revealed by electron microg- 

 raphy, this aspect of cytology is almost entirely missing. 



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