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Monographs
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S.SAKAMOTO et ol . 1911. ADAPTATION MECHANISM IN THE FETUS, WITH SPECIAL
REFERENCE TO FETAL ENDOCRINOLOGY
Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Acta Obstet. Gynecol, Scand. suppl.63.
19 pp., 24 figs., 2 tabs.
Summary of the authors' recent work on the human fetus; original graphs,
tables and micrographs.
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O.J.WJASOW and W . M . BARABANOW , eds. 1978. GRUNDLAGEN DER IMMUNEMBRYOLOGIE
translated from the Russian by B.Remus
Fischer, Jena. 202 pp., 52 figs., 36 tabs., subject index. M.87.00
Contents: 1. Gegenwartige Vorstellungen iiber die immunologische Reaktivitat
(Werbitzky) , 2. Entwicklung der antigenen Struktur des Auges in der
Embryogenese (Barabanow, Michailow) , 3. Entwicklung der antigenen Struktur
der Niere in der Embryogenese (Awerkina) , 4. Die morphogenetische Rolle
der Gewebsantigene (Wjasow, Titowa) , 5. Besonderheiten der iramunologischen
Regulation der Embryogenese bei Saugetieren und beim Menschen (Werbitzky)
This is the translation of a book published in Russian in 1973. The name
of the first editor, who wrote a book on immunoembryology in 1962, is usually
transliterated in the West as O.E.Vyasov. He is one of the outstanding
authorities in this field in the U.S.S.R. Obviously the main importance of
the book is that it provides an entry into the older Russian literature. The
bibliography contains some 350 titles, about one third of which are Russian;
many of these are books and dissertations.
We make the following annotations with the table of contents. Ch.l has
sections on the phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of immunological
reactivity and on the ontogenesis of specific cellular reactions. Ch.2 has
a section on tissue antigens of the retina. Ch.3 deals with frogs, chickens,
mammals and man. Ch.5 contains much information of clinical importance.
The book is mainly illustrated with photographs. The bibliography is disfigured
by numerous printing and transliteration errors.
Symposium reports
107.
R.E.BILLINGHAM and A. E. BEER, chairmen. 1977. THE JOY PALM MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM;
IMMUNOLOGIC ASPECTS OF THE MATERNAL-FETAL RELATIONSHIP
Grune & Stratton, New York, etc. Transplantation Proceedings, vol.JZj 2.
138 pp., 38 figs., 37 tabs.
This symposium was held in New York in August 1976. Apart from a 5-page
introduction by the chairmen, the 18 contributions are brief reviews or
research reports, the latter usually either preliminary communications or
extensions of previously published work. At least half of the papers are of
interest to mammalian immuno-embryologists. Most of their authors are American,
some English. Some other papers may be of marginal interest to our
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