HUMAN BLOOD

Additional reading Further information on human blood is found in the following texts: Vernon B. Mountcastle (ed.), Medical Physiology, 14th ed., 2 vol. (1980); Emil L. Smith et al., Principles of Biochemistry, 7th ed., 2 vol. (1983); Marcel Bessis, Corpuscles: Atlas of Red Blood Cell Shapes, trans. from French (1974); William J. Williams et al. (eds.), Hematology, 3rd ed. (1983); Maxwell M. Wintrobe et al., Clinical Hematology, 8th ed. (1981); D.E. MacIntyre and J.L. Gordon (eds.), Platelets in Biology and Pathology III (1987); and James H. Jandl, Blood: Textbook of Hematology (1987). Functions and structure of the heart and circulation are explored in Arthur C. Guyton, Textbook of Medical Physiology, 7th ed. (1986); Arthur C. Guyton, Carl E. Jones, and Thomas G. Coleman, Circulatory Physiology: Cardiac Output and Its Regulation, 2nd ed. (1973); Samuel I. Rapaport, Introduction to Hematology, 2nd ed. (1987); and Bernard M. Babior and Thomas P. Stossel, Hematology: A Pathophysiological Approach (1984). C. Lockard Conley Robert S. Schwartz Jane F. Desforges