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Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Neural Development
edited by W. M. Cowan, MD, PhD, T. M. Jessell, PhD, S. M. Zipursky, PhD, 563 pp, $65, New York, NY, Oxford University Press Inc, 1997.
Arch Neurol. 1998;55:1586.
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This book came out of a meeting on neural development organized by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and most of the contributors are institute investigators who have been at the forefront of recent advances in this field. Unlike other books that arise out of symposia, with only a few exceptions the authors have not limited themselves to narrow discussions of the work from their own laboratories, but rather have produced comprehensive reviews of the areas in which each has been active. This is attested by the average chapter length, which approaches 40 pages.
Several chapters are particularly excellent and deserve special mention. The contribution by David Anderson and Yuh Nung Jan on transcription factors that control the determination of neuronal phenotype provides a comprehensive introduction to this extensive literature. The chapter by Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Levigne is a tour-de-force description of recent advances in the field of axon guidance . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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