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Kyndra Sanchez

Kyndra Sanchez (born 2006, The Bronx) is an American actress known for Yoli Greenberg in Finding 'Ohana, Dawn Schafer in The Baby-Sitters Club season 2, voicing Bonnie Bones in Santiago of the Seas, and Darla Sanchez in Theater Camp.

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Kyndryl

Kyndryl is an American enterprise technology services provider created in 2021 from IBM's managed infrastructure services business, with about $15.1 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue.

Kynexis

Kynexis is a Dutch clinical-stage biotechnology company in Naarden developing brain-disease therapeutics, with lead candidate KYN-5356 in Phase 2 testing for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.

Kynodesme

Kynodesme (κυνόδεσμος, "dog leash"): a thin leather tie ancient Greek athletes used to bind the foreskin during nude exercise, keeping the glans covered; also loosely called infibulation.

Kynosarges

Kynosarges (Cynosarges, Κυνόσαργες), Athenian sanctuary of Heracles and gymnasium on the south bank of the Ilissos in deme Diomeia; gymnasium of the nothoi, Themistocles, Cynics, excavated 1896-97 by the British School at Athens.

Kynosoura (promontory)

Kynosoura (Κυνόσουρα, "dog's tail"), ancient promontory in Attica (modern Barbaro/Stomi near Marathon) and long eastern peninsula of Salamis; the latter framed the 480 BC Battle of Salamis, hosted a victory trophy, and shares its name with a Spartan village and Ursa Minor.

Kynouria (Eastern Peloponnese)

Kynouria (Κυνουρία), also Thyreatis, historical region of the eastern Peloponnese in Arcadia on the Argolic Gulf, contested between Argos and Sparta, later Tsakonia, with main towns Leonidio, Astros, and Tyros.

Kynren

Kynren – An Epic Tale of England is a 90-minute outdoor night show in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, staged by about 1,000 volunteers for 11Arches charity since 2016, covering 2,000 years of history; expanded in 2026 with The Storied Lands show park.

Kynurenic acid

Kynurenic acid (KYNA), a tryptophan metabolite of the kynurenine pathway, is an endogenous neuroprotective antagonist at the NMDA glycine site and GPR35 agonist; its nicotinic receptor activity is disputed.

Kynureninase

Kynureninase (KYNU, EC 3.7.1.3) is a PLP-dependent dimeric enzyme of the kynurenine pathway that cleaves kynurenine or 3-hydroxykynurenine to anthranilate or 3-hydroxyanthranilate plus L-alanine; bacterial and human forms show opposite substrate preferences.

Kynurenine

Kynurenine, first product of tryptophan degradation via the kynurenine pathway (discovered 1925, Matsuoka and Yoshimatsu), branches into kynurenic acid, quinolinic acid, and NAD+; an AhR-activating immunometabolite and biomarker in psychiatry, cancer, and neurodegeneration.

Kynurenine 3-monooxygenase

Kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO, kynurenine 3-hydroxylase, EC 1.14.13.9) is an NADPH-dependent FAD flavoprotein enzyme of the tryptophan kynurenine pathway that converts L-kynurenine to 3-hydroxykynurenine; a microglial mitochondrial branch-point drug target with preclinical inhibitors.

Kynurenine pathway flux and regulation

Kynurenine pathway flux and regulation: the major (~95%) route of tryptophan degradation to NAD+, rate-limited by hepatic TDO and extrahepatic IDO, controlled by glucocorticoids, heme, IFN-γ, and downstream enzymes KMO, KYNU, and KAT.

Kyo Kara Maoh! (今日からマ王!)

Kyo Kara Maoh! (今日からマ王!), also known as Maruma, is a Japanese light novel series by Tomo Takabayashi and Temari Matsumoto about Yuri Shibuya, a high schooler flushed into another world and made the 27th demon king of Shin Makoku; adapted into a Studio Deen/NHK anime (2004–2009), manga, games, and a stage musical.

Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta (क्यों कि... मैं झूठ नहीं बोलता)

Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta (क्योंकि... मैं झूठ नहीं बोलता), a 2001 Hindi fantasy comedy directed by David Dhawan, stars Govinda as a lawyer forced by his son's wish to stop lying; inspired by Liar Liar, produced by Ekta Kapoor, released 21 September 2001.

Kyo Kusanagi (草薙京)

Kyo Kusanagi (草薙京) is SNK's lead protagonist of The King of Fighters, debuting in KOF '94 as Japan Team leader; heir of the Kusanagi clan wielding a sacred flame, rival of Iori Yagami, and source of NESTS' clones and K'.

KYO-1

KYO-1 (KYO1, Kyoto 1; CVCL_2095, DSMZ ACC 601) is a human Philadelphia chromosome-positive CML blast crisis cell line established in 1981 from a 22-year-old Japanese man's peripheral blood, carrying BCR-ABL1 b2a2 and a homozygous TP53 p.Arg248Gln mutation.

Kyō-yaki

Kyō-yaki (京焼) is Kyoto ware, ceramics made in and around Kyoto since the early modern period, best known through Kiyomizu-yaki and prized for tea utensils.

Kyō-yūzen

Kyō-yūzen (京友禅) is yūzen paste-resist dyeing as practiced in Kyoto, producing multicolored, picture-like kimono patterns; it takes its name from the fan painter Miyazaki Yūzensai, active in the Genroku era.

Kyocera (京セラ株式会社)

Kyocera (京セラ), also known as Kyocera Corporation, is a diversified Japanese manufacturer founded in Kyoto in 1959 on fine ceramic technology, producing semiconductor parts, electronics, printers, and solar cells.

Kyoga

Lake Kyoga, shallow lake in central Uganda on the White Nile, fed by the Victoria Nile from Lake Victoria, draining to Lake Albert; mean depth 3 m, area 2,000 km2, major Ugandan fishery.

Kyōgen

Kyōgen (狂言) is a form of Japanese comic theater performed in colloquial dialogue, staged with noh on the same program under the joint name nōgaku.

Kyōgoku Tamekane

Kyōgoku Tamekane (京極為兼; 1254–1332) was a Japanese poet and court noble of the late Kamakura period who served Emperor Fushimi, founded the Kyōgoku school of waka, and compiled the imperial anthology Gyokuyōshū in 1312.

Kyōgyōshinshō

Kyōgyōshinshō (教行信証) is the principal work of Shinran (1173–1262), founder of the Jōdo Shinshū school of Japanese Buddhism, teaching that salvation comes through faith in Amida Buddha's vow.

Kyōhō Famine

The Kyōhō Famine (享保の飢饉) was a major famine that struck western Japan in 1732, when planthoppers and bad weather ruined the rice harvest; it was one of the three great famines of the Edo period.

Kyōhō fire

The Kyōhō fire (享保の大火) refers to the repeated fires that struck Edo during the Kyōhō era (1716–1736) under shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, prompting the founding of Japan's first town fire brigades in 1718.

Kyōhō Reforms

The Kyōhō Reforms (享保の改革) were reforms by the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, 1716 to 1745, restoring the shogunate's depleted treasury through higher land taxes, currency reform, and the agemai levy.

Kyōhō relaxation of the Western book ban

The Kyōhō relaxation of the Western book ban (洋書輸入の禁緩和) was a 1720 decision by the eighth Tokugawa shogun, Yoshimune, permitting import of Western books whose content was unrelated to Christianity.

Kyōiku kanji (教育漢字)

Kyōiku kanji (教育漢字), also called gakushū kanji, are the Chinese characters assigned by grade in Japan's Gakunenbetsu kanji haitōhyō. Originally 881 characters in the 1948 Tōyō kanji separate table, the list grew to the current 1,026 kanji taught across six elementary school grades.