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Ethylene-insensitive protein 2

Ethylene-insensitive protein 2 (EIN2, UniProt Q9S814) is the Arabidopsis ER-membrane central transducer of ethylene signaling, phosphorylated by CTR1, cleaved to activate EIN3/EIL1, and also a glucose-TOR substrate.

Ethylene-vinyl acetate

Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) is a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate, best known as the foam in shoe midsoles and the encapsulant in solar modules.

Ethylenediamine

Ethylenediamine (ethane-1,2-diamine) is the simplest ethylene diamine, a colorless, corrosive liquid best known as a chelating ligand and as the building block for EDTA and epoxy curing agents.

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), also called edetic acid, is a synthetic aminopolycarboxylic acid that binds metal ions; first synthesized in 1935, it treats lead poisoning and serves as a food additive.

Ethylestrenol

Ethylestrenol (19-norpregna-4-en-17α-ol), brand Maxibolin, is a synthetic anabolic steroid and 19-nortestosterone prodrug metabolized to norethandrolone. FDA-approved in 1964, discontinued for humans; veterinary use only in Australia and New Zealand; WADA-prohibited.

Ethylhexanoate

Ethylhexanoate (ethyl hexanoate, ethyl caproate), CAS 123-66-0, C8H16O2, is a JECFA-evaluated flavouring agent (FEMA 2439) with no safety concern at current intake, REACH-registered, but not approved in the EU as a fungicide active.

Ethylin Wang Jabs

Ethylin Wang Jabs, also published as Ethylin W. Jabs, is a human geneticist who chairs Clinical Genomics at Mayo Clinic and identified genes mutated in craniofacial malformation syndromes.

Ethylmalonic encephalopathy

Ethylmalonic encephalopathy, also called ETHE1 deficiency or EPEMA syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder causing psychomotor regression, seizures, petechial purpura, and chronic hemorrhagic diarrhea in young children.

Ethynodiol diacetate

Ethynodiol diacetate (CAS 62H10A1236) is a first-generation synthetic progestin oral contraceptive pro-drug of norethindrone, used at 1 mg with estrogen or 0.5 mg alone (Femulen), first marketed 1965 to 1966.

Ethynylbenziodoxolone reagents

Ethynylbenziodoxolone (EBX) reagents are cyclic hypervalent iodine(III) compounds, derived from 2-iodobenzoic acid and first synthesized in 1991, that transfer alkyne groups to nucleophiles and radicals in electrophilic alkynylation reactions.

Eti Osa

Eti-Osa (Eti Osa) is a Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria, covering Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lekki, and Ajah between Lagos Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean; its headquarters is Igbo Efon, with 10 wards and an estimated population of 463,712.

Eticyclidine

Eticyclidine (PCE), also known as cyclohexamine, is a dissociative anesthetic of the arylcyclohexylamine class, an N-ethyl analog of PCP developed by Parke-Davis in the late 1950s as CI-400.

Etidocaine

Etidocaine (Duranest) is a long-acting amide local anesthetic, a lidocaine derivative similar to bupivacaine, with rapid onset, profound motor block, and 2-4 times lidocaine's potency; US-approved 1976, later discontinued.

Etidronic acid

Etidronic acid, also known as etidronate (HEDP), is a first-generation bisphosphonate used as a drug for Paget's disease of bone and as an industrial water treatment chemical.

Etiene Medeiros

Etiene Medeiros (born 1991, Recife) is a Brazilian sprint swimmer, first Brazilian woman to win an individual world swimming title (50 m backstroke, 2014, world record 25.67) and 2017 long-course world champion, now targeting LA 2028.

Étienne Baluze

Étienne Baluze (1630–1718) was a French historian, canonist, and librarian who served Jean-Baptiste Colbert for over thirty years and published foundational collections of Frankish capitularies.

Etienne Brasselet

Etienne Brasselet is a French physicist and CNRS research director at LOMA near Bordeaux, known for generating optical vortices from liquid crystal droplets and winning the 2019 Prix Louis Ancel.

Étienne Capoue

Étienne Capoue, French midfielder (born 1988, Niort), played for Toulouse, Tottenham, Watford, and Villarreal; won the 2021 Europa League with Villarreal and was man of the match in the final; 7 France caps.

Étienne Clémentel

Étienne Clémentel (1864–1936) was a French Radical politician, mayor of Riom and ten times a minister, who organized the French wartime economy as Minister of Commerce from 1915 to 1919.

Étienne Decroux

Étienne Decroux (1898–1991), French actor and mime teacher, creator of corporeal mime, also called mime corporel dramatique. Student of Jacques Copeau, teacher of Marcel Marceau and Barrault, author of Paroles sur le mime (1963), known for the counterweight-based 'gymnastique dramatique' technique distinct from Lecoq's and Marceau's mime.

Etienne Desmarteau

Étienne Desmarteau (Joseph-Étienne Birtz, 1873–1905), Montreal policeman and first French Canadian Olympic gold medalist, won the 56-pound weight throw at St. Louis 1904 with 34 ft 4 in, beating John Flanagan.

Étienne Destot

Étienne Destot (1864–1918) was a French radiologist, anatomist, and surgeon who created the first hospital radiology service in France at Lyon and described Destot's space in the wrist.

Étienne Gilson

Étienne Gilson (Étienne Henry Gilson, 1884–1978), French philosopher and historian of medieval philosophy, Sorbonne and Collège de France professor, Académie française member 1946, founder of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, and central figure in 1930s Christian philosophy debates.

Étienne Goyémidé

Étienne Goyémidé (1942–1997) was a Central African novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for the novels Le silence de la forêt and Le dernier survivant de la caravane.

Étienne Klein

Étienne Klein is a French physicist and philosopher of science who spent his career at the CEA, founded its LARSIM laboratory, and wrote more than thirty books on physics.

Étienne Koechlin

Étienne Koechlin is a French cognitive neuroscientist at Inserm and the École normale supérieure in Paris, known for his hierarchical model of prefrontal executive control.

Étienne Laspeyres

Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913) was a German economist and statistician whose 1871 Laspeyres price index, a fixed-basket formula, still underlies most official consumer price statistics worldwide.

Étienne Laveaux

Étienne Laveaux (1751 to 1828) was a French general who governed Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution, enforced the abolition of slavery, and named Toussaint Louverture his lieutenant in 1796.

Étienne Lombard

Étienne Lombard (1869–1920) was a French otolaryngologist of the Paris hospital system who discovered the Lombard effect, the involuntary elevation of the speaking voice in noise.

Étienne Pays

Étienne Pays, born in Belgium in 1948, is a Belgian molecular biologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles known for work on African trypanosomes and APOL1.