There have been few publications relating to limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) in India. In this issue Meena et al describe clinical and pathological features of 26 LGMD patients from South India. The LGMDs are an expanding group of diverse conditions, the term LGMD was first introduced in 1954 by Natrass and Walton to and there is reduced calpain on Western Blot analysis. LGMD2B is caused ...

BACKGROUND Limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by limb girdle weakness. There are no clear clinical features that distinguish various types of LGMD. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 26 patients with chronic progressive weakness in limb girdle distribution without early facial involvement with muscle biopsies suggestive of dystrophy/myopath...

background and objective: uterus of rat with polycystic ovary (pco) may show pathological features. we provided pathological evidence for the rat uterus with no-induced pco.    materials and methods: wistar rats (weighing 200-250 g) were kept diestrous to receive l-arginine (50 mg/kg) intraperitoneally (i.p.) for 9 days/once a day. control group solely received saline (1 ml/kg, 9 days/once per ...

there are overwhelming reports and descriptions about celiac associated disorders. although there is a clear genetic association between celiac disease (cd) and some gastrointestinal disorders, there are controversial reports claiming an association between cd and helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection. different studies indicated the possible association between lymphocytic gastritis and bo...

In a retrospective three year study 13 cases of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis (XGC) (seven female, six male) were found in 724 gallbladders (1 8%), an estimated incidence of 1 7 cases per 1O00000 population per annum. Symptoms often began with an episode of acute cholecystitis and persisted for up to five years. There was extension of xanthogranulomatous tissue into adjacent organs in nine ...