RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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This has been followed by methods for the histological
location of these same activities, and it
has developed that the respiratory center, the
region in major nervous control of respiration, is
a diffuse region which extends not only through
the medulla but also down the spinal cord as far
as the lumbar segments.
State University of Iowa
Cellular Physiology
There has been appropriated to the State University
of Iowa the sum of $40,000 for special research
on the normal cell under the direction of
Professor J. H. Bodine during the five-year
period from July 1,1935, to June 30,1940. One
of the outstanding gaps in our knowledge of
experimental biology and medicine is a thoroughgoing
understanding of the properties of the normal
cell. This has been a serious handicap to a
better understanding of the abnormal behavior
of cells and organisms. During the past ten years
Professor Bodine has been accumulating information
regarding the structural and physiological
characteristics of a single organism (the
grasshopper), because it furnishes suitable laboratory
material for investigations into the fundamental
behavior of normal growing cells. An accurate
picture of cellular behavior from the
time of the fertilization of the egg until hatching
has been obtained. The embryo of the grasshop-
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