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M.D.COOPER and D.H.DAYTON, eds. 1977. DEVELOPMENT OF HOST DEFENSES
Raven, New York. A Monograph of the Nat. Inst, of Child Health and Hijman
Development. XIV, 306 pp., 50 figs., 47 tabs., subject index. $ 30.00
Contributors: Beer, Blaese, Cantor, Colten, Doherty, Gershon, Gill, Klinman,
Lawton, Le Douarin, Melchers, Miller, Mosier, Oldstone, Paul, Raff,
Scher, Silverstein, Stagno, Stossel, Tomasi, Vitetta, Wilson
This volume is based on a conference held in May 1976 as part of a series
that views immunology from a broadly developmental perspective. Because this
is rapidly becoming a very specialised field the book will appeal most to
specialists. Of the 57 contributing authors all but four were Americans.
The discussions following the papers are also recorded.
Most of the 23 papers contain new information, often unpublished at the
time of writing. They cover the fetal, perinatal and neonatal development
of man and other mammals. Some highlights are new data on the ontogeny of T
and B cells and their interactions, on the complement and properdin systems,
on phagocytosis and the role of macrophages, and on the function of alpha
fetoprotein in immunoregulation.
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SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM. 1977. Vth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENDOCRINOLOGY, 1976
Pergamon, Oxford, etc. J. Steroid Biochem. vol.8. 285 pp., numerous figs,
and tabs.
International symposium on hormones in development and growth (mainly mammalian
and human, pre- and postnatal) ; maternal-fetal-placental relationships
(10 papers); fetal tissues (13); fetal neuroendocrinology (6); sex
differentiation (7); discussions recorded.
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J.B.SOLOMON and J.D.HORTON, eds. 1977. DEVELOPMENTAL IMIvlUNOBIOLOGY
Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, Amsterdam, etc. XXVIII, 456 pp.,
79 figs., 5 pis., 114 tabs., no indexes. $ 59.95, Dfl. 138.00
During the last 15 years developmental immunology has become a science in
its own right. The present international symposium bears witness to this.
It was held in Aberdeen in September 1977 with an attendance of over a
hundred scientists from all over the world. A special feature of the symposium
was the large number of papers dealing with invertebrates (in the
"phylogenetic" section) and lower vertebrates (particularly fish, Xenopus
and some reptiles) . All of the 56 contributions are brief research reports
or reviews of recent findings. They are reproduced from typescripts without
editing. A very useful feature, commendable for other symposia, is the very
readable 13-page summary of contents prepared by the editors.
Two of the three sections are of particular interest to our readers: that
on Lymphocyte differentiation (highlighting the emergence and differentiation
of lymphocyte sub-populations, and cell surface immunoglobulins and
antigens)^ and that on Development of antigen-driven immune function (highlighting
T and B cell interrelations in fishes and amphibians, thymectomy
in amphibians, immunoglobulin phylogeny, ontogeny of T suppressors and
lyraphokines, bursa and immunological responses in the chick, and sequential
maturation of the immune response)
The book was produced very well and extremely rapidly but has no indexes.
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