Bøger i Handbuch der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen Handbook of Mikroscopic Anatomy serien

The editors and the publisher are pleased to present another volume in this series of monographs. When it became clear that the material had become too extensive for a single volume, and when some authors were forced by external factors to withdraw from the project, it was decided to publish two volumes.

This volume is intended to cover research in the field of muscle morphology since publication of the previous edition by Haggquist in 1956.

The stress, however, lay on biochemical questions concerning the mechanism of hormone action, since the accessory sex glands were considered to be primary target organs of hormone action, i.