Cells and tissues in culture : methods biology and physiology (volume 1)

Tissue culture is being used in a wide variety of ways and in many branches of biology. The aim of this three-volume multi-author work is to assess what has been achieved so far and to discuss where, when and how the technique may be most profitably employed. The first volume covers many of the more general fields of tissue culture, including such topics as the evaluation of the methods as such, the study of metabolic processes and growth, the action of hormones and vitamins and the use of the method in genetics. The second volume is devoted to studies of certain particular tissues or systems which have either been extensively investigated in themselves or which, for one reason or another, accentuate some achievement or contribution which the method has made to biology. In the third volume, some of the uses of tissue culture an the study of invertebrate and plant diseases will be reviewed together w:th some of the applications to pathology and virus research.