Symposia Biologica Hungarica 14. - Ultrastructural Features of Cells and Tissues in Culture (1972)
ULTRASTRUCTURAL FEATURES OF CELLS AND TISSUES IN CULTURE edited by I. TÖRŐ and GY. RAPPAY (Symposia Biologica Hungariea 14) Tissue culturing has become one of the basic methods of present day experimental biology. It is the purpose of the annual Conferences of the European Tissue Culture Society to promote the application of this method in the study of all kinds of cell-biological problems. The papers in this volume are those of the first day of the 1971 meeting held in Budapest and all the contributions are dealing with the fine structure of cultured tissues and cells. The papers cover a wide range of experimental work with objects like lymphoretieular cells, tumour cells, endocrine as well as plant cells. The results indicate that irrespective of whether the original ultrastructure is retained or lost in culture, various functions characterizing the cells in vivo are still apparent under in vitro conditions. This symposium has been a further proof of the importance of the tissue culture method in studying the control of various vital functions on the cellular level. The electron micrographs presented are especially valuable to cytologists. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest