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growtli hormone, Li (1956) wrote, ''Does 

 this ability to act as a synergist mean that 

 growth hormone plays a permissive or sup- 

 porting role in the biological action of a hor- 

 mone or of a biological agent? It is not un- 

 reasonable to assume that growth hormone 

 creates the necessary and sufficient environ- 

 ment for other biological agents to exercise 

 the full scope of their functions." 



Acknowledgments. We are greatly indebted to 

 Drs. Thaddeiis Mann, James Harkin, Helen Deane, 

 Keith Porter, and David Brandes for generously 

 supplying luipublished data and electronmicro- 

 graphs. Mrs. Eva Brown provided invaluable as- 

 sistance in the preparation of the manuscript. We 

 wish to thank our artist. Mr. Kenji Toda, for many 

 of the original figures. The researches of one of us 

 (D. P.) cited in the chapter were supported in part 

 by grants from the Dr. Wallace C. and Clara A. 

 Abbott Fund of the University of Chicago and by 

 Research Grants 2912 and 5335 from the National 

 Institutes of Health, Public Health Service. 



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