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Pantoprazole
Originally approved by the FDA in 2001 under the brand name Protonix, Pantoprazole is a sodium salt proton pump inhibitor used to treat GERD, gastric, and duodenal ulcers.
Pantothenate kinase
Pantothenate kinase (PanK, EC 2.7.1.33; PANK1-4) catalyzes the first, rate-limiting step of coenzyme A biosynthesis from vitamin B5. PANK2 mutations cause PKAN; bacterial PanK types are antimicrobial targets.
Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
PKAN (pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration, formerly Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome, NBIA1) is a rare autosomal recessive PANK2 disorder causing dystonia, brain iron accumulation, and the eye-of-the-tiger MRI sign.
Pantothenic acid
Pantothenic acid, or vitamin B5, is a water-soluble vitamin precursor of coenzyme A, found in nearly all foods; adults need 5 mg/day, deficiency is rare, and no toxic upper limit is set.
Pantothenic acid deficiency
Pantothenic acid deficiency (vitamin B5 deficiency, ICD-11 5B5H), a rare condition from severe malnutrition or metabolic antagonists, causing burning feet, fatigue, insomnia, and gastrointestinal symptoms.
Pantoum
Pantoum, also spelled pantun-derived Western form from Malay pantun berkait: interlocking quatrains where lines 2 and 4 repeat as lines 1 and 3 of the next, closing by returning the opening lines; introduced via Hugo's Les Orientales (1829) and Baudelaire's Harmonie du soir.
Pantry
A pantry is a room or closet in a home used to store food, historically a medieval service room for bread and dry goods; the word comes from Latin panis, bread.
Pants (build system)
Pants, also called Pantsbuild, is an open-source build and developer workflow system for monorepos, begun at Twitter in 2010, open-sourced in 2012, and known for caching and automatic dependency inference.
Pantsir missile system
The Pantsir-S1 is a Russian self-propelled short-range air defense system built by KBP in Tula, combining twelve missiles with two 30 mm autocannons to defend airfields and S-300 batteries.
Pantun
Pantun is a traditional Malay verse form using quatrains with an a-b-a-b rhyme and a two-part structure, used in maritime Southeast Asia for at least 500 years.
Pantun berkait
Pantun berkait, also called pantun berangkai or pantun rantai, is a Malay verse form in which each stanza's second and fourth lines begin the next stanza.
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (パンティ&ストッキングwithガーターベルト)
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (パンティ＆ストッキングwithガーターベルト) is a 2010 Gainax adult anime about fallen angel sisters hunting Ghosts in Daten City; TRIGGER's sequel New Panty & Stocking premiered July 2025 on Prime Video.
Pantyhose
Pantyhose, also called panty hose or sheer tights, are one-piece nylon legwear with a built-in panty. Invented 1959 by Allen Gant Sr. (Panti-Legs, Glen Raven) and Ernest G. Rice's 1958 patent; popularized by the 1960s miniskirt.
PANUC study
PANUC study: baseline characterization of the Pacific Northwest Udall Center Clinical Consortium, a 619-participant Parkinson's disease cohort (Seattle, Portland, Cincinnati) with 22% dementia, 59% mild cognitive impairment, and a male excess of impairment.
Panuco
Panuco (Pánuco), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 167, a tropical and subtropical coastal-river ecoregion on Mexico's Gulf slope centered on the Río Pánuco basin, noted for roughly 60% endemic fishes, Xiphophorus and Herichthys radiations, and endangered conservation status.
Panulirus argus
Panulirus argus, the Caribbean spiny lobster (langosta espinosa, rock lobster), is a clawless western Atlantic lobster from North Carolina to Brazil, supporting a fishery worth over US$456 million yearly, with overexploited Brazilian stocks.
Panulirus homarus
Panulirus homarus, the scalloped spiny lobster (Cancer homarus Linnaeus, 1758), is an Indo-West Pacific spiny lobster fished for about 3,000 t annually; genetics support rubellus as a distinct lineage and synonymize megasculpta.
Panulirus ornatus
Panulirus ornatus, ornate spiny lobster or tropical rock lobster (Palinurus ornatus, Fabricius 1798), an Indo-West Pacific spiny lobster; basis of the Torres Strait fishery and Southeast Asian aquaculture, with a six-month larval phase.
Panuozzo
Panuozzo (plural panuozzi), a Gragnano pizza-dough sandwich invented in 1983 by Giuseppe Mascolo, double-baked, about 30 cm long, PAT-listed and trademarked in 2024.
Panvax
Panvax is Seqirus's inactivated, split-virion pandemic influenza vaccine family: an H1N1 pandemic vaccine (TGA-registered 2008, WHO prequalified 2009) plus H5N1 and H5N8 pre-pandemic variants, egg-produced with aluminium phosphate adjuvant.
Panvel (पनवेल)
Panvel (पनवेल) is a city in Raigad district, Maharashtra, India, about 40 kilometers east of Greater Mumbai, on the Gadhi river beside Navi Mumbai International Airport.
Panvel-Karjat Railway Corridor
The Panvel-Karjat Railway Corridor is a 29.5 km double-line suburban railway linking Panvel in Navi Mumbai to Karjat, built to cut CSMT-Karjat journeys by 25 to 30 minutes.
Panwar dynasty of Garhwal
The Panwar dynasty of Garhwal (पंवार वंश) was a ruling house that governed Garhwal in the central Himalayas, traditionally founded by Kanak Pal in 823 AD and ended by the Gorkha conquest of 1803.
PANX1
PANX1 (Pannexin 1, HGNC:8599, 11q21) encodes a heptameric large-pore ATP-release channel involved in inflammation, blood pressure, apoptosis, and oocyte maturation defect 7; blocked by probenecid, carbenoxolone, and 10Panx1.
Panxian-1 power station
Panxian-1 power station (贵州盘江电投发电盘县电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Baiguo, Pan, Guizhou, China. Its original five 200 MW units, online from 1993 to 2001, were replaced by two 700 MW supercritical units.
Panxian-2 power station
Panxian-2 power station, also known as the Pannan power plant, is a 2,400 MW bituminous coal-fired power station at Xiangshui, Pan County, Liupanshui, Guizhou, China, with units online from 2006 to 2007.
Panyadhyaksha
The Panyadhyaksha (पण्याध्यक्ष) was the Superintendent of Commerce in Mauryan administration, described in Kautilya's Arthashastra, who regulated trade, prices, and the sale of royal merchandise.
Panyaza Lesufi
Panyaza Lesufi is a South African politician and African National Congress member serving as Premier of Gauteng since October 2022, re-elected in 2024, after serving as the province's education MEC from 2014.
Panzanella
Panzanella (pan molle) is a Tuscan and central-Italian bread salad of stale unsalted bread soaked, squeezed, and dressed with tomato, onion, basil, oil, and vinegar; first cited by Bronzino in the 16th century, tomatoes added only in the 20th.
Panzer 38(t)
The Panzer 38(t), originally the Czechoslovak LT vz. 38 built by ČKD in Prague, was a reliable light tank with a 37 mm gun that Germany adopted in 1939.