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Adaptive Mechanisms of Growth Control

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Principles and Prenatal Growth

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At a meeting in Rome in 1894, Professor Giulio Bizzozero (1894) speculated before his fellow pathologists that the various tissues and organs of the body might be classified according to their mitotic potentials. He referred to those tissues which are in a constant state of proliferation as elementi labili. In others, the cells multiply during maturation, but become mitotically stable in the adult. These he classified elementi stabili. Finally, elementi perenni included the nervous and muscular tissues, the cells of which are incapable of division beyond early stages of development. These categories have since come to be known as mitotically renewing, expanding, and static tissues, respectively (Figure 1).

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Goss, R.J. (1978). Adaptive Mechanisms of Growth Control. In: Falkner, F., Tanner, J.M. (eds) Principles and Prenatal Growth. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0814-0_1

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