All articles starting with U

U Ophiuchi

U Ophiuchi is a detached eclipsing binary star in the constellation Ophiuchus, two nearly equal mid-B-type stars orbiting every 1.677 days and long used as a standard reference for stellar masses and radii.

U Orionis

U Orionis, abbreviated U Ori, is a Mira-type variable star in Orion, a pulsating red giant discovered in 1885 whose brightness swings by six magnitudes every 372 days.

U Ottama

U Ottama (ဦးအုတ္တမ), born Paw Tun Aung, was an Arakanese Buddhist monk who led Burma's anti-colonial movement and was the first nationalist charged with sedition in British Burma, in 1921.

U Po Hlaing

U Po Hlaing, also written U Hpo Hlaing or U Boe Hlaing, was a minister, judge, and political theorist of Burma's late Konbaung dynasty, serving Kings Mindon and Thibaw.

U Ponnya

U Ponnya (U Ponnya) was a celebrated Burmese poet and essayist of the Konbaung court, best known for creating the pyazat genre before his political execution in 1866–1867.

Oct 22, 2026

U Raschid

U Raschid, also known as M. A. Raschid, was a Burmese politician and Muslim community leader who served as a minister under U Nu from 1952 to 1962.

U Sagittarii

U Sagittarii is a classical Cepheid variable star in Sagittarius and a member of the open cluster Messier 25, with a pulsation period of 6.74 days.

U Saw

U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw (Burmese: ဦးစော), was a Burmese nationalist politician and premier who organized the 1947 assassination of Aung San and was hanged in 1948.

U Scorpii

U Scorpii is a recurrent nova in the constellation Scorpius, a binary system whose white dwarf suffers thermonuclear eruptions about every ten years, most recently in 2022.

U Tak

U Tak (우탁) was a Goryeo dynasty Confucian scholar and official who died in 1342, the first in Korea to master and teach Cheng Yi's Yijing commentary.

U Thant (ဦးသန့်)

U Thant (ဦးသန့်), Burmese diplomat and third UN Secretary-General 1961–1971; mediated the Cuban Missile Crisis, sought Vietnam peace, and is remembered through U Thant House in Yangon.

Oct 22, 2026

U Thong style

U Thong style is a style of Buddha images made in central Thailand from the late twelfth to the fifteenth century, bridging Lopburi and early Ayutthaya art.

U Turn (1997 film)

U Turn is Oliver Stone's 1997 neo-noir thriller, written by John Ridley from his novel Stray Dogs, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Nick Nolte. A gambler stranded in Superior, Arizona is caught between a couple who each want the other dead; shot in 42 days for $20 million, it grossed $6.6 million.

U Turn (2016 film)

U Turn (2016) is a Kannada-language mystery thriller written, produced, and directed by Pawan Kumar, starring Shraddha Srinath in her debut. A journalist investigating illegal U-turns on a Bengaluru flyover becomes entangled in deaths; remade in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Filipino, and Hindi.

U Turn (2018 film)

U Turn (2018): Pawan Kumar's Tamil-Telugu bilingual remake of his 2016 Kannada thriller, starring Samantha Akkineni as a journalist probing flyover U-turn deaths; released 13 September 2018, UA, budget est. 15 crore.

U Wisara

U Wisara (ဦးဝိစာရ) was a Burmese Buddhist monk and nationalist activist who died in prison in 1929 after a 166-day hunger strike against British rule in Burma.

U-118MG

U-118MG (U-118 MG, U118) is a human glioblastoma cell line, Cellosaurus CVCL_0633, ATCC HTB-15, established in 1968; shown to be a contaminated U-138MG derivative with homozygous PTEN and TP53 mutations, used widely in glioma drug screening.

U-138MG

U-138MG, also written U138 or U-138 MG, is a human cancer cell line from a malignant brain glioma, established in 1968 and widely used in glioblastoma research.

U-178MG

U-178MG (CVCL_A758) is a human astrocytoma/glioblastoma cell line established at Uppsala in the 1970s by Westermark, Pontén, and Mark; male donor, 45-hour doubling time, homozygous PTEN and heterozygous TP53 mutations, GFAP-negative, used in DepMap and CellMinerCDB.

U-251MG

U-251MG (U251, CVCL_0021) is a human glioblastoma/astrocytoma cell line from a 75-year-old male, established in 1960s Uppsala; TP53/PTEN mutant, NCI-60 member, known for U-373 cross-contamination and subclone genetic drift.

U-343MG

U-343MG (CVCL_S471), also written U343MG or U-343, is a human glioblastoma cell line from a male donor's temporal lobe, GFAP-negative and mesenchymal, part of the U-343 same-tumor panel with U-343MGa.

U-373MG ATCC

U-373MG ATCC (CVCL_2219, HTB-17) is a human glioblastoma/astrocytoma cell line shown by STR profiling and sequencing to be a U-251MG derivative, not the original 1973 Uppsala U-373MG line; ICLAC-00295, ATCC distribution discontinued.

U-373MG Uppsala

U-373MG Uppsala, also written U-373 MG (Uppsala), is the original human glioblastoma astrocytoma cell line, established in 1973 at the University of Uppsala and distinguished from the widely distributed stock that is actually U-251 MG.

U-47700

U-47700 (trans-3,4-dichloro-N-[2-(dimethylamino)cyclohexyl]-N-methylbenzamide) is a non-fentanyl synthetic opioid, a selective μ-opioid receptor agonist developed by Upjohn in the 1970s, about 7.5 times more potent than morphine, linked to overdose deaths and scheduled in Schedule I (US CSA, 2016; UN Single Convention 61/I, 2017).