Electrolytes in Biological Systems

This Seventeenth Growth Symposium volume is comprised of papers presented in June of 1958. As stated in the foreword, the theme of the conference was that of "Differentiation and growth in response to a changing chemical environment." As Dr. Rudnick points out, and as is all too obvious, this permits an extremely wide range of papers. Subjects and authors are: (1) Wilde-Differentiation in response to chemical environment; (2) Hoffmann-Berling-Cell structures in cell movements; (3) Nason-Tocopheral in muscle; (4)-Csapo-Myometrial regulation; (5) MoogPhosphatase adaption; (6) Schneiderman-Insect growth hormones; (7) Torrey-Modification of root development; (8) Luckwill-fruit growth in relation to chemical stimuli; (9) Loomis-CO2 and feedback mechanisms; and (10) Lutwak-Mann-Physiology of mammalian blastocyst. Treatments vary greatly, from very detailed accounts of limited subjects, as the Tocopheral paper, to more generalized talks, such as Wilde's, to excellent theoretical discussions, such as the Loomis CO2 story. Because of the wide range dealt with it is difficult to recommend this volume to any one type of biologist, or even to a developmental biologist in general, for with depth of treatment in very specific subjects comes less general applicability and interest. Nevertheless, this volume, like the preceding Growth Symposia, does present a sampling of the broad range of activity that interests modern developmental biologists.