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The book is illustrated with good line drawings but there are no photographs.
The bibliography covers 48 closely printed pages and is up to date
until 1975.
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D.R.GARROD, ed. 1978. SPECIFICITY OF EMBRYOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS
Chapman and Hall, London. Receptors and Recognition Series B, vol.4.
XII, 274 pp., 64 figs., subject index. £ 15.00
Contributors: Barondes, Curtis, Gaze, Hermolin, Lilien, Lipke, Noden,
Rosen, Steinberg, Turner
This book is not about interactions among embryologists , as suggested by
the title, but about specific cell adhesion and the resultant cell positioning
in development. It is a collection of authoritative, critical and wellorganised
reviews on a broad, though not exhaustive range of aspects of the
problem. The discussions are both descriptive and analytical and up to date
till the last moment. Most authors draw heavily on their own research but
place it in a broader perspective.
Some chapters have a pronounced theoretical slant, notably those by Gaze
(nerve connections) , Steinberg (cell ligands and differential adhesion) and
Curtis (the "morphogen" theory of cell positioning) . These chapters will be
required reading for all those working themselves in these fields.
The first two chapters deal with specific cell positioning in vivo - of
neural crest cells and in the nervous system, respectively. Chs.3-5 discuss
the adhesion and sorting of cultured cells, while the last two chapters concentrate
on two model systems, the sponges and the cellular slime moulds.
The volume is well produced and illustrated. (A final remark on the title:
there are many more kinds of cell interactions than those discussed here;
and why do so many writers these days use "embryological" instead of the
perfectly unambiguous adjective "embryonic"?)
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E.A.LURIYA. 1977. HEMATOPOIETIC AND LYMPHOID TISSUE IN CULTURE, translated
from the Russian by B.Haigh
Consultants Bureau (Plenum, Nev; York, etc.). Studies in Soviet Science - Life
Sciences. XIV, 181 pp., 47 figs., 14 tabs. $ 42.00, E 22.05
Contents (abridged): I. Hematopoietic tissue in vitro; II. Possibilities
of differentiation of cells grown in hematopoietic tissue cultures on retransplantation
in vivo; III. Lymphoid tissue in vitro ; IV. Immunological
functions of lymphoid tissue in vitro ; V. Cell lines in lymphoid and hematopoietic
tissue
This book was published in Russian in 1972 but was revised for this translation.
The main part of the book presents the results of organ and monolayer
culture of lymphoid and hematopoietic tissue (including stromal mechanocytes)
obtained by the author and her collaborators (notably A.Ya.Fridenshtein)
at the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow. These are placed in historical
perspective and discussed mainly against the background of other work
in the USSR.
An appendix specially written for this edition by Luriya and Fridenshtein
provides valuable technical and methodological information on work carried
out recently at the above institute, particularly the cloning of fibroblasts
in monolayer culture and the culturing of various organs.
The book is well produced and illustrated with good line drawings and photographs.
The bibliography contains some 350 titles, about 30 of which (by
both Russian and non-Russian authors) are more recent than 1972; there is no
way of telling which papers are in Russian.
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