One Hundred Volumes of the International Review of Cytology

Abstract

Publisher Summary When the International Review of Cytology commenced, it was planned that it would appear once a year and that it would be truly international. The International Society of Cell Biology agreed to extend its auspices over the International Review of Cytology at its birth. The society had been formed in 1948, and it became the International Federation for Cell Biology. It took about a year to assemble the authors for the first volume. Seven of them were British, five American, two Dutch and Danish, and one Swiss. There were 16 articles, which covered the historical aspects of the subject, techniques (freeze-drying and electron-microscopic studies of tissue sections, histochemistry of esterases, factors controlling staining of tissue sections with acid and basic dyes), the nucleus (nuclear reproductions and nucleocytoplasmic relations), and enzymes (relation to cell nutrition, relation to cell membrane penetration, and protoplast surface enzymes). There were other articles on bacterial cytology, bacteriophage reproduction, folding of protein molecules and osmosis, structural agents in mitosis, spermatozoan behavior, and cytology of mammalian epidermis and its associated glands. The first meeting of the new editorial board to plan future issues of the International Review of Cytology was held in June 1985. The subject of cell biology continues to grow, and, from being an academic study confined to the laboratory, it has burgeoned to a level at which it has a profound medical and social impact. The International Review of Cytology plans to keep pace with these and other developments, and the next 100 volumes can be expected to bring up-to-date reviews of the important and exciting developments in the field of cell biology to its host of loyal readers.