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of anesthetics upon cells, and how gamma-aminobutyric acid is dis­
tributed.^9 Upon Palay’s arrival, the section conducted research on:

1. the ultrastructure of nerve cells, synapses, neuroglia interrelations,
   and peripheral nerve fiber terminations by electron microscopy;


2. histochemical studies of cholinesterase activity distributed differ­
   ently between species and GABA’s role in metabolic brain reactions;


3. neurosecretory mechanisms; and 4) the normal biochemical make­
   up of the hypothalamus, optic tract and spinal cord.^10
   In 1957 a Field Station of Perinatal Physiology was established in
   Puerto Rico with a free-ranging colony of 300 rhesus monkeys and also
   50 caged ones, in order to study adverse factors in monkeys’ perinatal
   period that might lead to neurological and psychological deficits in the
   offspring.^11 The primary factor studied was asphyxia neonatorum. Other
   data on a variety of topics were also collected, however, from monkeys’
   menstruation and the nerve supply of the endometrium to the matura­
   tion of infants and the behavior and social organization of the colony.^12
   When Pearce Bailey left the NINDB and Richard L. Masland be­
   came the new director of the institute, Windle was appointed the
   assistant director of the institute. Palay became the new chief of the
   laboratory, Lloyd Guth became acting chief of the Section on Devel­
   opment and Regeneration, and the Field Station of Perinatal Physiology
   was transferred from the Laboratory of Neuroanatomical Sciences to
   the Office of the Assistant Director.^13

Notes

1. William F. Windle, NINDB Annual Report, 1954.


2. Windle, NINDB Annual Reports, 1956 and 1960.


3. Windle, NINDB Annual Reports, 1954-1958.


4. Windle, NINDB Annual Report, 1954.


5. Windle, NINDB Annual Reports, 1954-1958.


6. Windle, NINDB Annual Report, 1958, 4.


7. Windle, NINDB Annual Reports, 1954-1958.


8. Windle, NINDB Annual Reports, 1955 and 1956.


9. Kety, NINDB Annual Report, 1954; Windle, NINDB Annual Report, 1956.


10. Windle, NINDB Annual Reports, 1954, 1955, 1957-1959.


11. Windle, NINDB Annual Report, 1957.


12. Windle, NINDB Annual Report, 1958.


13. Shy, NINDB Annual Report, 1960.