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Author: Pincus, Gregory, 1903-1967
=The Eggs of Mammals=
Subject: Ovum; Embryology -- Mammals; Mammals -- physiology; Ovum
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Year: 1936
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By Gregory Pincus
THE EGGS OF MAMMALS
 
 
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY SERIES
 
 
Editors: Philip Bard, Johns Hopkins University; L. R. Blinks, Stanford University; W. B. Cannon, Harvard University; W. J. Crozier, Harvard University; J. B. Collip, McGill University; Hallowell Davis, Harvard University; S. R. Detwiler, Columbia University; Selig Hecht, Columbia University; Hudson Hoagland, Clark University; J. H. Northrop, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; G. H. Parker, Harvard University; Gregory Pincus. Harvard University; L. J. Stadler, The University of Missouri; Sewall Wright, University of Chicago.
 
 
PACEMAKERS IN RELATION TO ASPECTS OF BEHAVIOR. By Hudson Hoagland
 
NEUROEMBRYOLOGY. By Samuel R. Detwiler
 
THE EGGS OF MAMMALS. By Gregory Pincus
 
Other volumes to follow
 
 
1
 
 
THE EGGS OF MAMMALS
 
 
BY GREGORY PINCUS


Assistant Professor of General Physiology Harvard University
Assistant Professor of General Physiology Harvard University
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1936
1936
Copyright, 1936, By the MACMILLAN" COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE
REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER, EXCEPT BY A REVIEWER WHO WISHES TO QUOTE BRIEF PASSAGES IN CONNECTION WITH A REVIEW WRITTEN FOR INCLUSION IN MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER




Published, August, 1936
Published, August, 1936
SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED BY T. MOREY * SON PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




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PREFACE
==Preface==


I should like to express my appreciation to Dr. J. B. Collip, Dr. H. Selye, Dr. D. L. Thomson, and Dr. W. J. Crozier for their kindness in reading the manuscript of this book before publication. Their comments have been taken advantage of in a manner for which I, not they, am responsible. I am indebted too to Dr. F. H. A. Marshall and Mr. John Hammond of Cambridge University for encouragement and interest which led to the undertaking of this monograph, and to my friend and collaborator Dr. E. V. Enzmann who actively assisted in a number of the investigations herein described. The National Research Council Committee for Problems of Sex and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation provided grants making possible most of my own work, and the preparation of the monograph itself is due in no small measure to their assistance. To the editors and publishers of the following journals I am indebted for permission to reprint the various tables and figures indicated in the text: the American Journal of Anatomy, the American Journal of Physiology, the Anatomical Record, Archives de Biologic, the Biological Bulletin, the Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications in Embryology, the Journal of Anatomy, the Journal of Experimental Biology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the Journal of Experimental Zoology, the Journal of Morphology, the Quarterly Review of Biology, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
I should like to express my appreciation to Dr. J. B. Collip, Dr. H. Selye, Dr. D. L. Thomson, and Dr. W. J. Crozier for their kindness in reading the manuscript of this book before publication. Their comments have been taken advantage of in a manner for which I, not they, am responsible. I am indebted too to Dr. F. H. A. Marshall and Mr. John Hammond of Cambridge University for encouragement and interest which led to the undertaking of this monograph, and to my friend and collaborator Dr. E. V. Enzmann who actively assisted in a number of the investigations herein described. The National Research Council Committee for Problems of Sex and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation provided grants making possible most of my own work, and the preparation of the monograph itself is due in no small measure to their assistance. To the editors and publishers of the following journals I am indebted for permission to reprint the various tables and figures indicated in the text: the American Journal of Anatomy, the American Journal of Physiology, the Anatomical Record, Archives de Biologic, the Biological Bulletin, the Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications in Embryology, the Journal of Anatomy, the Journal of Experimental Biology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the Journal of Experimental Zoology, the Journal of Morphology, the Quarterly Review of Biology, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society.


I ask the understanding of the reader if this account of the development of mammalian eggs seems at times to deal in summary fashion with some of the voluminous literature on this subject. The investigative aspects are what interest and intrigue me. I emerge confessedly with the impression that at best a qualitative basis for future work has been estabhshed, and since I am possessed by the belief that
I ask the understanding of the reader if this account of the development of mammalian eggs seems at times to deal in summary fashion with some of the voluminous literature on this subject. The investigative aspects are what interest and intrigue me. I emerge confessedly with the impression that at best a qualitative basis for future work has been estabhshed, and since I am possessed by the belief that accurate quantitative observatioDs afford the means for elucidating the nature of biological processes, I feel that this is a book of interrogation, not explanation. If it does indeed create curiosity its major objective will be attained.
 
 
viii PREFACE
 
accurate quantitative observatioDs afford the means for elucidating the nature of biological processes, I feel that this is a book of interrogation, not explanation. If it does indeed create curiosity its major objective will be attained.


Gregory Pincus
Gregory Pincus
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
==Table of Contents==
 
PAGE
 
Preface vu
 
CHAPTER
 
I. Introduction 1
 
II. The Origin of the Definitive Ova 5
 
III. The Growth of the Ovum 32
 
IV. The Development and Atresia of Full-Grown Ova and
 
the Problem of Ovarian Parthenogenesis ... 42
 
V. Methods Employed in the Experimental ]\Ianipula
tion of ^Mammalian Ova 62
 
VI. The Tubal History of Unfertilized Eggs .... 68
 
VIL Fertilization and Cleavage 75
 
VIII. The Activation of Unfertilized Eggs 98
 
IX. The Growth and Implantation of the Blastodermic
 
Vesicle 112
 
X. Summary and Recapitulation 128
 
Bibliography 131
 
Author Index 155


Subject Index 159
# Introduction
# The Origin of the Definitive Ova
# The Growth of the Ovum
# The Development and Atresia of Full-Grown Ova and the Problem of Ovarian Parthenogenesis
# Methods Employed in the Experimental Manipulation of Mammalian Ova
# The Tubal History of Unfertilized Eggs
# Fertilization and Cleavage
# The Activation of Unfertilized Eggs
# The Growth and Implantation of the Blastodermic Vesicle
# Summary and Recapitulation
# Bibliography

Revision as of 10:06, 1 May 2013

The Eggs of Mammals

By Gregory Pincus

Assistant Professor of General Physiology Harvard University


NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1936


Published, August, 1936


This Book Is Dedicated to W. E. Castle and W. J. Crazier


Preface

I should like to express my appreciation to Dr. J. B. Collip, Dr. H. Selye, Dr. D. L. Thomson, and Dr. W. J. Crozier for their kindness in reading the manuscript of this book before publication. Their comments have been taken advantage of in a manner for which I, not they, am responsible. I am indebted too to Dr. F. H. A. Marshall and Mr. John Hammond of Cambridge University for encouragement and interest which led to the undertaking of this monograph, and to my friend and collaborator Dr. E. V. Enzmann who actively assisted in a number of the investigations herein described. The National Research Council Committee for Problems of Sex and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation provided grants making possible most of my own work, and the preparation of the monograph itself is due in no small measure to their assistance. To the editors and publishers of the following journals I am indebted for permission to reprint the various tables and figures indicated in the text: the American Journal of Anatomy, the American Journal of Physiology, the Anatomical Record, Archives de Biologic, the Biological Bulletin, the Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications in Embryology, the Journal of Anatomy, the Journal of Experimental Biology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the Journal of Experimental Zoology, the Journal of Morphology, the Quarterly Review of Biology, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

I ask the understanding of the reader if this account of the development of mammalian eggs seems at times to deal in summary fashion with some of the voluminous literature on this subject. The investigative aspects are what interest and intrigue me. I emerge confessedly with the impression that at best a qualitative basis for future work has been estabhshed, and since I am possessed by the belief that accurate quantitative observatioDs afford the means for elucidating the nature of biological processes, I feel that this is a book of interrogation, not explanation. If it does indeed create curiosity its major objective will be attained.

Gregory Pincus

Cambridge, Mass. July, 1936.


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Origin of the Definitive Ova
  3. The Growth of the Ovum
  4. The Development and Atresia of Full-Grown Ova and the Problem of Ovarian Parthenogenesis
  5. Methods Employed in the Experimental Manipulation of Mammalian Ova
  6. The Tubal History of Unfertilized Eggs
  7. Fertilization and Cleavage
  8. The Activation of Unfertilized Eggs
  9. The Growth and Implantation of the Blastodermic Vesicle
  10. Summary and Recapitulation
  11. Bibliography
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