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Enos (biblical figure)

Enosh, also called Enos, is a son of Seth and grandson of Adam in Genesis, whose era Genesis 4:26 marks as when men began to call on the name of the LORD.

eNOS activation

eNOS activation (endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation, NOS3) is the calcium-calmodulin, phosphorylation (Ser1177/Thr495), acylation and cofactor-dependent process that switches caveolin-bound eNOS into an active NO-producing enzyme in vascular endothelium.

Enotria: The Last Song

Enotria: The Last Song is a 2024 soulslike action RPG by Milan-based Jyamma Games, set in an Italy-inspired world of eternal theater. Its parry-centric combat, mask loadouts, and folklore setting distinguish it from other soulslikes.

Enough (film)

Enough is a 2002 American drama-thriller directed by Michael Apted, starring Jennifer Lopez as a waitress who flees her violent wealthy husband with their daughter and trains herself to fight him.

Enough Said

Enough Said (2013) is Nicole Holofcener's romantic comedy-drama starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, and Catherine Keener, about a divorced masseuse dating her new friend's ex-husband; released September 18, 2013, PG-13, Metascore 78, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty) is an 1868 comedy by Alexander Ostrovsky satirizing bigotry through the social climber Glumov.

Enovix

Enovix is an American Silicon Valley battery manufacturer founded in 2007 that makes lithium-ion batteries with a 100% active silicon anode, targeting smartphones, wearables, and defense.

Enoxacin

Enoxacin is a synthetic fluoroquinolone antibiotic developed by the Japanese company Dainippon and sold as Penetrex, used mainly for urinary tract infections, gonorrhea, and skin infections before withdrawal.

Enoxaparin sodium

Enoxaparin sodium (Lovenox, Clexane; Sanofi) is a low-molecular-weight heparin anticoagulant made by controlled depolymerization of heparin, US-approved 1993, used for DVT prophylaxis and treatment and acute coronary syndromes, with renal dose adjustment and a spinal hematoma boxed warning.

Enoximone

Enoximone (fenoximone, MDL 17,043, Perfan) is a phosphodiesterase III inhibitor with positive inotropic and vasodilating action, used short-term intravenously for acute congestive heart failure in Europe and the UK, not North America.

Enphase Energy

Enphase Energy is a Fremont, California energy technology company founded in 2006 by Raghu Belur and Martin Fornage, which has shipped about 87.8 million microinverters to systems in over 165 countries.

ENPIC study

ENPIC (Evaluation of Nutritional Practices in the Critical Care patient) is a 2018 Spanish multicenter observational study of 639 ICU patients on artificial nutrition, finding 25.6% mortality linked to severity scores, NUTRIC risk, and protein intake.

Enping 23-1 Oil Field

Enping 23-1 (恩平23-1) is an offshore oil field in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea, operated by CNOOC, which began production in 2017.

ENPP1

ENPP1 (ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1, PC-1) is a human transmembrane ectoenzyme that hydrolyzes ATP to generate mineralization-inhibiting pyrophosphate and degrades extracellular 2′3′-cGAMP, damping cGAS–STING antitumor immunity; deficiency causes GACI and ARHR2.

ENPP2

ENPP2 (autotaxin, ATX, LysoPLD) is a human gene on 8q24.12 encoding a secreted 125 kDa lysophospholipase D that converts LPC to LPA; dysregulation links to cancer, fibrosis, and inflammation, with inhibitors in clinical trials.

ENPP3

ENPP3 (CD203c, NPP3) is a human type II transmembrane ectoenzyme of the ENPP1-3 subgroup that hydrolyzes extracellular ATP, UDP-GlcNAc, and cGAMP; it is the basophil activation marker used in allergy testing and a cGAMP-hydrolyzing immune checkpoint over-expressed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Enquest

EnQuest PLC is a British independent oil and gas company focused on mature, late-life assets in the UK North Sea and South East Asia, listed in London.

Enric Bernat

Enric Bernat, also known as Enrique Bernat, was a Spanish confectionery entrepreneur who founded Chupa Chups in 1958 and invented the modern lollipop on a plastic stick.

Enric Sala

Enric Sala is a Spanish marine ecologist who left a Scripps professorship in 2008 to lead National Geographic's Pristine Seas, which has helped protect over 6.9 million square kilometers of ocean.

Enrica Soma

Enrica Georgia Soma was an American ballet dancer and model who rose to principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and married film director John Huston in 1950.

ENRICA study

ENRICA (Study on Nutrition and Cardiovascular Risk in Spain) is a nationwide cohort of about 13,000 adults aged 18+ recruited 2008–2010, with Seniors-ENRICA-1 and -2 older-adult subcohorts, studying diet, risk factors, and mortality.

Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti

Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, also published as Marien Kind, was an Austrian baroness and novelist (1871–1955) who led German-language Catholic historical fiction before her books were banned under the Nazis.

Enriched category

An enriched category is a category-like structure whose hom-sets are replaced by objects of a monoidal base category, yielding ordinary categories, metric spaces, and 2-categories as instances.

Enriched uranium

Enriched uranium is uranium in which the fissile isotope U-235 is increased above its natural 0.7 percent abundance, allowing fission chain reactions in power reactors, naval propulsion, and nuclear weapons.

Enrichment analysis

Enrichment analysis, also called gene set enrichment analysis, is a family of statistical methods in bioinformatics testing whether predefined gene sets are overrepresented among genes from genome-wide experiments.

Enrichment culture

Enrichment culture is a microbiology technique that grows a mixed sample under selective conditions favoring a target organism, raising its abundance or recovery for isolation.

Enrico Bignami

Enrico Bignami was an Italian socialist journalist, born in Lodi in 1844, who founded the newspaper La Plebe in 1868 and later edited the review Coenobium from exile in Lugano.

Enrico Bombieri

Enrico Bombieri, born 1940 in Milan, is an Italian mathematician and 1974 Fields Medalist known for the Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem, and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Enrico Bonatti

Enrico Bonatti is an Italian marine geologist known for work on mantle rocks exposed on the ocean floor and the start of seafloor spreading in the Red Sea.

Enrico Brusoni

Enrico Brusoni (Ernesto Mario Brusoni, 1878-1949), Italian cyclist; won the 1900 Paris Olympics points race gold, unrecognized in his lifetime, plus Coppa del Re 1898 and Gran Fondo 1902, 1904.