ABSTRACT Alcoholic foamy degeneration (AFD) is an uncommon presentation of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) with characteristic histologic findings of foamy-looking hepatocytes due to the presence of abundant microvesicles of fat within the cytoplasm predominantly in perivenular and midzonal regions without inflammation and fibrosis. It is underdiagnosed as the patients quickly recover after alcoholic abstinence and are rarely caught on biopsies. AFD has better prognosis than alcoholic hepatitis, and the injury mechanism is different, warranting a different diagnosis. We present an uncommon case of AFD incidentally diagnosed during autopsy in a chronic alcoholic and diabetic man. (AFD ALD (ALD foamylooking looking fibrosis biopsies hepatitis diagnosis man

Abstract This paper reports the synthesis and characterization of two novel modified α-monomers of peptide nucleic acid containing thymine and cytosine nucleobases. These novel monomers have been synthesized by the incorporation of thiol moiety in the side chain of peptide nucleic acid backbone. These novel α-monomers have been identified with different spectroscopic techniques, notably infra-red spectroscopy, 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, supported by mass spectrometry.