Research Catalog

Title

Mammalian germ cells. Editor for the Ciba Foundation, G. E. W. Wolstenholme, assisted by Margaret P. Cameron and Jessie S. Freeman.

Author

Symposium on the Physiology of Mammalian Germ Cells (1952 : London)

Publication

Boston, Little, Brown, 1953.

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Additional Authors

• Wolstenholme, G. E. W. (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)
• Ciba Foundation

Description

xvi, 302 p. ill.

Subjects

• Mammals
• Semen
• Spermatozoa
• Ovum
• Cells
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress

Note

• At head of title: A Ciba Foundation symposium.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / S.J. Folley -- Biochemical aspects of semen / T. Mann -- The seminal amino-acid and carbohydrate pattern of bulls with normal and abnormal testes function / F.X. Gassner and M.L. Hopwood -- Excretion of neutral steroids in the urine of bulls with warmth-induced aspermia. The effect of transport on spermatogenesis and excretion of neutral steroids in the urine of bulls / P. Meschaks -- Aerobic metabolism and semen quality / C. Terner -- Factors controlling rates of metabolism in mammalian spermatozoa / H.A. Lardy -- Proteolytic enzymes in human semen / F. Lundquist -- Some factors influencing the longevity of bull sperm cells in vitro / J.C.N. Kok -- The effect of streptomycin on bull semen / D.R. Melrose -- Semen characteristics and fertility in the bull (summary) / M.W.H. Bishop -- The preservation of spermatozoa at low temperatures / C. Polge -- The movements of spermatozoa / Lord Rothschild -- Human spermatozoan production in health and disease / J. MacLeod -- Physiological processes involved in spermatozoan transport in the cow / N.L. VanDemark -- The effect of controlled ovulation upon the fertility of the mammalian egg / S.A. Asdell -- Hormonal mechanism of the first polar body formation in the follicle / R. Moricard -- Research on the formation of the second polar body in the tube after entrance of the sperm into the oocyte (comparative studies in vivo and in vitro) / R. Moricard -- Some aspects of ovulation, recovery and transplantation of ova in the immature rabbit / C.E. Adams -- In vitro experiments with rabbit eggs / Audrey U. Smith -- Fertilizability of rabbit germ-cells / M.C. Chang -- Experiments on fertilization of rabbit ova in vitro with subsequent transfer to alien does / O. Venge -- Early death of the mammalian ovum with special reference to the aplacental opossum / C.G. Hartman -- Some factors affecting fertilization and embryonic death / L.E. Casida -- Post-coital tests / P.M.F. Bishop -- Results of post-coital tests where pregnancy ensued / Ian Donald.

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• 14664892
• SCSB-14250504

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