Ultrastructure of Reproduction: Gametogenesis, Fertilization, and Embryogenesis (Electron Microscopy in Biology and Medicine)

Jonathan Van Blerkom Blerkom Van P. Motta

ISBN 10: 0898385725 / ISBN 13: 9780898385724

Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Boston, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ultrastructure of Reproduction: Gametogenesis, Fertilization, and Embryogenesis (Electron Microscopy in Biology and Medicine)
• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Boston
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898385725
• ISBN 13: 9780898385724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Advances in the development and application of electron microscopic techniques have occurred recently such that the electron microscope has evolved to become an essential tool in both basic and clinical research. Use of this instrument has contributed significantly to the formation of new perspectives and concepts concerning cell fine structure. These structural perspectives are now being integrated with specific functional, biochemical and pathophysiological events and processes of cells and tissues. Most recently, utilization of innovative electron microscopic techniques such as freeze-fracture, freeze- etching, and scanning and high-voltage electron microscopy offers both the basic and clinical scientist potentially fundamental insights into many morphodynamic processes related to the activities of cells and tissues. Such an approach has been especially rewarding when applied to the dynamic events of gametogenesis and early embryonic development. The chapters comprising this book have been selected and edited with the aim of providing an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the most important aspects of vertebrate gamets and embryos as revealed by the integration of several different submicroscopic methods. The organization of the chapters is designed to indicate present gaps in our knowledge of the developmental and reproductive biology of gametes and the developing embryo and possible Iines of research which may lead to a lessening of these gaps.

Review

`This book is suitable for advanced students, and particularly for researchers in the fields of reproductive and developmental biology. The chapters on human reproduction are recommendable for clinicians.'
Arch. Histol. Jap., 49:1 (1986)