A Vitamin B Deficiency Syndrome Allied to Sprue *Being a paper read at the All-India Medical Conference held at Ahmedabad, December 1943.

Regional Entero-Colitis (Crohn's Disease) *Paper read at the General Conference of the Christian Medical Association of India held at Miraj in December 1940. †See editorial in this number.

as regional ileitis, ileitis-terminalis, regional enteritis, non-specific granuloma, inflammatory tumour of the small intestine, chronic cicatrizing enteritis, localized hypertrophic enteritis, localized chronic ulcerative ileitis, and ' Crohn's disease \ It is surprising to note that so far the disease has not been mentioned in Indian medical literature, and no reference has been made to such ...

Analysis of 242 Cases of Sprue in Indian Troops *Published by kind permission of the D. M. S. in India.

sprue (Chaudhuri and Rai Chaudhuri, 1944), nutritional diarrhoea (Karamchandani, 1944), incomplete sprue (Manson-Bahr, 1940), chronic jejuno-ileal insufficiency (Bennett and Hardwick, 1940), and vitamin B deficiency syndrome allied to sprue (Cook, 1944). Rogers (Rogers and Megaw, 1942) is of the view that unexplained diarrhoea of more than 10 days' duration should be treated as sprue, provided ...

Talipes Equino-Varus *Being a paper read at the All-India Medical Conference, Ahmedabad.

lend to communicate with Denis Browne, one of London's leading orthopaedic surgeons, who had some new ideas on the treatment of clubfoot. After having obtained rather indifferent and unsatisfactory results with all of the older, out-of-date though standard methods of treating clubfoot,we were only too glad to get these newer ideas, which incidentally are especially suitable for India where so m...

Some Problems of Medical and General Interest *Being an inaugural address to the 22nd All-India Medical Conference held at Amritsar in December 1945.

Detection of New Silent Mutation at 348 bp Position in a CD18 Gene in Holstein Cattle Normal and Heterozygous for Bovine Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency Syndrome

In India, Holstein and its crosses are being used extensively in breeding programmes and all these breeding bulls are screened for autosomal recessive genes. Blood samples are collected in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) coated tubes and DNA was isolated by using phenol-chloroform method. Polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) wereperformed by using...