Life and health

Minnow

Minnow: true minnows are small freshwater fishes of the family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes), also called shiners, chubs, and daces; used as bait fish, distinct from mosquitofish Gambusia and killifish mummichogs.

Mino

Mino (MINO, CVCL_1872) is a human mantle cell lymphoma cell line established from peripheral blood, t(11;14)-positive, cyclin D1-expressing, TP53-mutant, distributed by ATCC CRL-3000 and DSMZ ACC-687, and widely used in MCL drug screening.

Minocycline

Minocycline (Minocin) is a semisynthetic second-generation tetracycline antibiotic, FDA-approved 1971, used for acne vulgaris, rosacea (Emrosi 40 mg ER, 2024), and bacterial infections; more adverse effects than doxycycline, including pigmentation and drug-induced lupus.

Minodronic acid

Minodronic acid (minodronate, YM-529; Recalbon/Bonoteo) is a third-generation nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate for osteoporosis, developed in Japan, approved January 2009, dosed 1 mg daily or 50 mg every 4 weeks, use limited to Japan.

Minoo Rassoulzadegan

Minoo Rassoulzadegan is a geneticist and epigeneticist known for demonstrating RNA-mediated non-Mendelian inheritance in mice, first reported in Nature in 2006, and has worked at Inserm and CNRS in Nice.

Minor capsid protein

A minor capsid protein is a viral structural protein present in small copy numbers in the capsid, where it stabilizes the shell and aids genome packaging.

Minor capsid protein P30, tectiviridae

Minor capsid protein P30 of bacteriophage PRD1 (Tectiviridae), a 9 kDa, 60-copy edge cementing and tape-measure protein essential for capsid assembly; distinct from Bam35's muramidase P30.

Minor extracellular protease Epr, GA-like domain

Minor extracellular protease Epr, GA-like domain (InterPro IPR054725) is the C-terminal domain signature of Epr, a 70 kDa minor extracellular serine protease of Bacillus subtilis (gene epr, P16396), essential for swarming motility and CSF signal processing.

Minor histocompatibility protein HMSD

HMSD (Histocompatibility (Minor) Serpin Domain containing) is a human chromosome 18 pseudogene whose serpin-like protein is the precursor of ACC-6, an HLA-B44-restricted, hematopoietic-restricted minor histocompatibility antigen generated by SNP-controlled alternative splicing.

Minor J. Coon

Minor J. Coon (1921–2018) was an American biochemist at the University of Michigan who resolved and reconstituted the liver microsomal cytochrome P450 system central to drug metabolism.

Minor spliceosomal snRNAs (U11, U12, U4atac and U6atac)

Minor spliceosomal snRNAs U11, U12, U4atac and U6atac form the RNA core of the U12-dependent minor spliceosome, which removes rare U12-type introns (about 700 in humans), sharing U5 with the major spliceosome.

Minor spliceosome

The minor spliceosome, also called the U12-dependent spliceosome, is one of two pre-mRNA splicing machineries in eukaryotes including humans, removing rare U12-type introns found in roughly 700 to 800 human genes.

Minor Surgical Procedures

Minor surgical procedures (minor surgery) are superficial operations done under local anesthesia with low risk of life-threatening complications, such as suturing, lesion excision, and abscess drainage, often performed in offices, clinics, and procedure rooms rather than operating theaters.

Minority Health

Minority health: the physical and mental health of minority groups and related health disparities; NIMHD and HHS OMH definitions, MeSH indexing, US institutional history, WHO social determinants, and intervention evidence.

Minority stress

Minority stress: excess stress on people in stigmatized social categories, theorized by Virginia Brooks (1981) and integrated by Ilan Meyer (2003) to explain LGBTQ+ mental health disparities via distal and proximal stressors.

Minoru Fukuda

Minoru Fukuda is a Japanese-born American glycobiologist who discovered sialyl Lewis X and directs the Glycobiology Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

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Minoru Kanehisa

Minoru Kanehisa, born 1948 in Nagasaki, Japan, is a Japanese bioinformatician and project professor at Kyoto University, known as the creator of the KEGG database and a 2018 Clarivate Citation Laureate.

Minoru Koyama

Minoru Koyama is a neuroscientist studying how neural circuits are built during development in larval zebrafish, and a Janelia Research Campus lab head selected in 2013.

Minoru Yoshida

Minoru Yoshida (吉田稔) is a Japanese chemical biologist at RIKEN whose 1990 work on trichostatin A helped establish epigenetics, earning the Japan Academy Prize in 2015.

Minoxidil

Minoxidil, sold as Rogaine, is a vasodilator drug developed in the 1970s for severe hypertension and now best known as a treatment for hair loss.

MINT trial

MINT (Myocardial Ischemia and Transfusion) trial: NHLBI-funded randomized trial of 3,504 acute MI patients with anemia (Hgb <10 g/dL) at 144 centers; liberal transfusion (Hgb ≥10) was not superior to restrictive (7-8 g/dL) for 30-day death or recurrent MI (RR 1.15, p=0.07).

Mintu P. Turakhia

Mintu P. Turakhia, also known as Mintu Turakhia, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for the 2019 Apple Heart Study.

Miocene gastropod faunas

Miocene gastropod faunas are the fossil assemblages of marine snails in the Central Paratethys, recording a Langhian diversity hotspot of 698 species, then abrupt turnovers marking regional stage boundaries.

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Miopithecus

Miopithecus, the talapoins, a genus of two tiny West Central African guenon monkeys (M. talapoin, M. ogouensis), the smallest Old World monkeys, arboreal, water-associated, omnivorous, CITES Appendix II.

Miopithecus talapoin

Miopithecus talapoin, the southern or Angolan talapoin (Simia talapoin, Schreber 1774), is the smallest Old World monkey, a riparian dwarf guenon of Angola and DRC south of the Congo River, distinct from the northern M. ogouensis.

MIP7 trial

MIP7 (EudraCT 2021-005993-24, NCT05622162) is an Italian phase III trial by ITEL Telecomunicazioni comparing 18F-JK-PSMA-7 PET/CT with 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT for detecting biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer, targeting a 20% higher detection rate in 106 patients.

Mipomersen

Mipomersen, brand name Kynamro, is an antisense oligonucleotide that blocks apoB synthesis, approved in the United States in 2013 for homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia and since discontinued.

MiPPAD trial

MiPPAD (Malaria in Pregnancy Preventive Alternative Drugs) trials: two randomized trials (2009–2014) in five sub-Saharan African countries testing mefloquine versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy, in 4,749 HIV-negative and 1,071 HIV-positive women.

Miquel Coll

Miquel Coll is a Spanish structural biologist, a CSIC Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, known for structures of DNA-drug complexes and ARF transcription factors.