Endocrinological Studies on Central System Regulating Fish Reproduction.

Regulating Reproduction

child with Down's syndrome. The case allows the authors to raise many of the issues that are then explored in more detail in subsequent chapters. The conclusion picks up the story of the same family and reviews many of the complex issues raised in the book. Each chapter of the book explores an issue related to prenatal testing, beginning with the first chapter, which reviews basic genetics. The...

Regulating the reproduction business?

support of the Commission of the European Communities (DG XII) Biomedical and Health Research programme (BIOMED 2) (Contract No. BMH4–CT 96–1444). I thank all the participants in that programme for their insight and support and I am especially grateful to Sara Fovargue for her comments on an earlier draft of this paper. 1 See generally, D. Morgan and R.G. Lee, The Human Fertilisation and Embryo...

Endocrinological Studies on the Euryhaline Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus (Linn.) **

The common killifish of the eastern United States, Fundulus heteroclitus (Linn.), is widely employed as an experimental animal by zoologists, em-bryologists, and comparative physiologists. The late Dr. Myron Gordon8' points out that it is a hardy species of convenient size, readily caught in tidal pools but not usually bred in aquaria for purposes of raising the stock. Dr. Gordon warns against ...

Studies on Chronic Pain Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System

Studies on esterases in the chicken central nervous system.

Tritolyl phosphates have caused many cases of poisoning in humans involving damage to. the nervous system which is characterized clinically by ataxia and paralysis of the limbs (Smith, Elvove, Valaer, Frazier & Malleroy, 1930; Henschler, 1958); also, in the hen a similar type of poisoning is produced and this species is therefore accepted as a suitable experimental animal for studying this type...