Teaching point: Extrahepatic portosystemic shunt is a rare congenital condition, associated with other anomalies, for which prompt radiological diagnosis and treatment are important to prevent complications.

abomasal ulcer is a digestive disorder in domestic ruminants. there are several forms of ulcers which produce different clinical signs. for determination of lesion prevalence, abomasa of 200 buffaloes were examined grossly and in some cases, histopathologically. one hundred and twenty seven examined abomasa (63.5%) had ulcerative lesions. all ulcers (except in 2 cases) were classified as type 1...

Pseudohypoparathyroidism due to deficient end organ response to parathyroid hormone (PTH) is characterized by hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and increased serum PTH. We report a case of an 8-year-old girl with pseudohypoparathyroidism without features of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy. The case is of interest as the child on serial follow-up over a period of 2 years developed hypothyroid...

Recently, cell-based replicon systems for hepatitis C virus (HCV), in which the nonstructural proteins stably replicate subgenomic viral RNA in Huh7 cells, were developed. To date, one limitation of using these replicon systems to advance drug discovery is the inability of other genotypic derivatives, beyond those of two distinct strains of genotype 1b (HCV-N and Con1), to stably replicate in H...