"The forty-second symposium of the Society for Developmental Biology, Irvine, California, June 19-22, 1983." Includes bibliographies and index.

Cell-matrix interaction in the embryo : cell shape, cell surface, cell skeletons, and their role in differentiation / Elizabeth D. Hay -- The different types of collagen and collagenous peptides / Richard Mayne -- Hyaluronate-cell interactions / Bryan P. Toole ... {et al.} -- Anchorins : a new class of membrane proteins involved in cell-matrix interactions / Klaus von der Mark ... {et al.} Fibronectin and cell surface interactions / Kenneth M. Yamada ... {et al.} -- The role of laminin in basement membranes and in the growth, adhesion, and differentiation of cells / Hynda K. Kleinman ... {et al.} -- Basement membrane structure and assembly : inferences from immunological studies with monoclonal antibodies / Thomas F. Linsenmayer, John M. Fitch, and Richard Mayne -- Basement membrane proteins and growth factors in kidney differentiation / Peter Ekblom -- Evolutionary constancy of basement membrane components / J.H. Fessler ... {et al.} -- Amelogenin gene expression during epithelial-mesenchymal interactions / Harold C. Slavkin ... {et al.} -- Collagen genes and cartilage differentiation / Yoshifumi Ninomiya, Allan M. Showalter, and Bjorn R. Olsen -- Cell and matrix interactions during limb chondrogenesis in vitro / Michael Solursh -- Morphogenesis of cartilaginous long bone rudiments / Paul Rooney, Charles Archer, and Lewis Wolpert -- Use of collagen gel cultures to study heart development : proteoglycan and glycoprotein interactions during the formation of endocardial cushion tissue / Roger R. Markwald ... {et al.} -- The effects of the configuration of an artificial extracellular matrix on the development of a functional dermis / John F. Burke -- Tumor cell interaction with the extracellular matrix / L.A. Liotta, C.N. Rao, and S.H. Barsky -- Nuclear, cytoplasmic, and membrane markers to follow neural crest cell migration : a comparative study / Nicole M. Le Douarin ... {et al.} -- Latex beads with defined surface coats as probes of neural crest migratory pathways / Marianne Bronner-Fraser -- The role of extracellular matrix in neural crest development : a reevaluation / James A. Weston, Gary Ciment, and John Girdlestone -- Formation and involvement of extracellular matrix in the development of sponges, a primitive multicellular system / Robert Garrone -- Another look at fibrillogenesis / Jerome Gross and Romaine R. Bruns -- Collagen fibril assembly at the surface of polarized cells / Robert L. Trelstad and David E. Birk -- Remodeling of the basement membrane as a mechanism of morphogenetic tissue interaction / Merton Bernfield ... {et al.} -- Molecular dissection of mullerian duct regression / Paricia K. Donahoe ... {et al.} -- The role of extracellular matrix in regeneration of the neuromuscular junction / Ralph M. Nitkin ... {et al.}.