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Mevalonate
Mevalonate is a six-carbon hydroxy acid that serves as the central intermediate of the mevalonate pathway; its formation by HMG-CoA reductase is the rate-limiting step of cholesterol biosynthesis, the target of statin drugs.
Mevalonate kinase
Mevalonate kinase (MVK) is an enzyme, EC 2.7.1.36, that phosphorylates mevalonate to mevalonate 5-phosphate in isoprenoid and cholesterol biosynthesis; MVK gene mutations cause mevalonate kinase deficiency (HIDS, mevalonic aciduria), and MVK is implicated in cancer immunity.
Mevalonate pathway
Mevalonate pathway: cytosolic/ER route from acetyl-CoA to IPP, cholesterol, dolichol, ubiquinone, and prenylated proteins; HMG-CoA reductase is rate-limiting and the statin target; also called HMG-CoA reductase pathway.
Mevalonic acid
Mevalonic acid, also called hiochic acid, is a chiral six-carbon hydroxy acid that serves as the central intermediate of the mevalonate pathway, which makes terpenes and steroids.
Mevania
Mevania (Greek Μηουανία), modern Bevagna, Umbria: a Roman municipium on the Via Flaminia, scene of a 310/308 BC battle, Vitellius's 69 AD stand, and famed for its white Chianina oxen.
Mevaniola
Mevaniola, also called little Mevania, was a small Roman municipium near Galeata in the Bidente valley, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; a Pliny-attested Umbrian town with forum, early theater, baths, and a late 4th-century AD end.
Mevinphos
Mevinphos (Phosdrin, CAS 7786-34-7), an organophosphate cholinesterase-inhibitor insecticide, EPA Category I, WHO extremely hazardous, used on vegetables and fruits, withdrawn from US domestic production.
Mevion (迈胜医疗集团) (迈胜医疗)
Mevion (迈胜医疗), also known as Mevion Medical Systems, is a China-headquartered medical device group formed in 2018 that makes compact single-room proton therapy systems for cancer treatment.
Mevlevi literature
Mevlevi literature is the body of poetry, commentary, and biography written by members of the Mevlevi Sufi order, founded on the thought of Rumi (d. 1273).
Mevlevi Order
The Mevlevi Order, whose dervishes are known as the Whirling Dervishes, is a Sufi order founded in 1273 in Konya, Turkey, around the teachings of the poet Rumi.
Mevlid
Mevlid, from Arabic mawlid meaning birth, is a Turkish and Ottoman genre of narrative poem on the Prophet Muhammad's birth, with Süleyman Çelebi's 1409 Vesîletü'n-necât as its founding text, also recited as a ceremony.
Mevonlerbart
Mevonlerbart (REGN1909) is a fully human monoclonal antibody from Regeneron that binds Fel d 1, the dominant cat allergen, and is in Phase 3 development for cat allergy.
Mew (Pokémon)
Mew (Japanese: ミュウ) is a Mythical Psychic-type Pokémon, #0151 in the National Pokédex, secretly added to Pokémon Red and Green by programmer Shigeki Morimoto in 1996.
Mewar (मेवाड़)
Mewar (मेवाड़) is a historical region of south-central Rajasthan, India, east of the Aravallis, ruled by the Guhila and Sisodia dynasties from Chittor and Udaipur until it joined Rajasthan in 1948.
Mewar darbar
The Mewar darbar was the court and government of the Rajput kingdom of Mewar in southern Rajasthan, centered on the Maharana and his council of noble estates.
Mewar family dispute
Mewar family dispute: inheritance conflict in the erstwhile royal family of Mewar, Udaipur, begun by Mahendra Singh's 1983 partition suit, decided in 2020, stayed in 2022, and now contested over Arvind Singh's 2025 will between Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar and his sisters.
Mewar kingdom
The Mewar kingdom (मेवाड़ राज्य), also called Udaipur state, was a Rajput state in Rajasthan founded by Bappa Rawal, famed for resisting the Mughal emperors.
Mewar painting
Mewar painting is a school of Rajasthani miniature painting that emerged in the seventeenth century under the Sisodia dynasty of Mewar, known for bold lines, bright colors, and devotional themes.
Mewar Ramayana
The Mewar Ramayana is a lavishly illustrated Sanskrit manuscript of the Ramayana, made at the Udaipur court of Maharana Jagat Singh of Mewar between 1649 and 1653.
Mewar war of 1680–81
The Mewar war of 1680–81 (मेवाड़ युद्ध) was fought between the Mughal Empire under Aurangzeb and Mewar under Maharana Raj Singh, provoked by the jizya's 1679 reimposition.
MeWe
MeWe: ad-free, privacy-focused social network founded 2016 by Mark Weinstein as an anti-Facebook alternative; freemium subscriptions ($6.49/month), double-ratchet encrypted chat, 2024 McCourt Global Series B, FTC-named Facebook competitor.
Mewing (orthotropics)
Mewing: tongue-on-palate posture technique from John Mew's orthotropics, viral on social media for jawline reshaping; orthodontic bodies find no scientific evidence and cite risks.
MewithoutYou
MewithoutYou (mewithoutYou) was an American experimental-punk/post-hardcore band from Philadelphia, formed 2001, fronted by Aaron Weiss; seven albums on Tooth & Nail and Run for Cover, Sufi and Judeo-Christian lyrics, farewell shows 2022.
MeWo
MeWo (CVCL_0445; also MEWO, SK-MEL-MeWo, BI-Mel) is a human cutaneous melanoma cell line from a metastatic lymph node of a 78-year-old man, established at Memorial Sloan Kettering and first published in 1976; NF1-mutant, microsatellite stable, CDKN2A-deficient.
Mews
Mews: British term for stables, coach houses, and servants' quarters behind London town houses, from the royal mews at Charing Cross (hawk cages); now converted narrow-lane dwellings, with 391 original mews recorded in 2015.
Mewtwo (ミュウツー)
Mewtwo is Psychic-type Legendary Pokémon No. 150. Cloned from Mew by scientists, it is the star of Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998) and has Mega Evolutions.
Mex Island
Mex Island is a small island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, near Amchitka in the Rat Islands, at 51.47232° N, 179.02916° E, elevation 19 m; it appears on maps of the Amchitka underground nuclear test monitoring network.
Mexia Supermarket
Mexia Supermarket was a 36,000-square-foot independent grocer at 3900 Hemphill Street, Fort Worth, Texas (not Mexia, Texas), opened late 1998 by Advance Investment Corp., bankrupt in 1999, abandoned with rotting food, cleaned up by the city, later a Dollar General.
Mexica
Mexica: the Nahuatl-speaking people who founded Tenochtitlan in 1325 and led the Triple Alliance empire of central Mexico until its fall in 1521; the endonym, versus the later 19th-century label Aztec.
Mexica defeat by the Tarascans
The Mexica defeat by the Tarascans (derrota mexica ante los tarascos) was the crushing of Axayácatl's invasion army around 1477 near Taximaroa, Michoacán, leaving the Tarascan state undefeated against the Aztec empire.