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Pamela S. Douglas

Pamela S. Douglas is an American cardiologist at Duke University, a past president of the American College of Cardiology, and leader of the REPRIEVE statin trial in HIV.

Pamela S. Ohashi

Pamela Ohashi is a Canadian immunologist known for work on T-cell activation and tolerance, and directs the Tumor Immunotherapy Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

Pamela S. Soltis

Pamela S. Soltis is an American plant evolutionary biologist at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, known for angiosperm phylogenetics and polyploid speciation research.

Pamela Sklar

Pamela Sklar (1959–2017) was an American psychiatric geneticist whose 2009 Nature paper gave the first robust evidence that schizophrenia risk is polygenic, involving thousands of common variants.

Pamela Stanley

Pamela Stanley is an Australian-American glycobiologist and Professor Emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for creating lectin-resistant CHO cell lines that revealed how cell-surface carbohydrates are built.

Pamidronic acid

Pamidronic acid, also called pamidronate, is a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate drug that binds to bone and inhibits osteoclasts, given intravenously for hypercalcemia of malignancy, Paget's disease, and bone metastases.

Pamiparib

Pamiparib (BGB-290) is BeiGene's oral PARP1/PARP2 inhibitor for HRD cancers; conditionally approved in China for germline BRCA ovarian cancer and studied with tislelizumab, temozolomide, and surufatinib.

Pamphagidae

Pamphagidae, toad grasshoppers, is a family of about 600 Orthoptera: Caelifera grasshoppers in Acridoidea, living in deserts of Africa, Europe, and Asia, with contested taxonomy and polyphyletic Pamphaginae.

Pampus argenteus

Pampus argenteus, the silver pomfret (zobaidy), is a deep-bodied stromateid fish of the Indo-West Pacific from the Persian Gulf to Japan, a highly commercial schooling zooplankton feeder supporting major fisheries and emerging aquaculture.

Pan (genus)

Pan (genus): African great ape genus with two species, chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and bonobo (Pan paniscus), humans' closest living relatives at 98.7% shared DNA, split by the Congo River.

PAN2-PAN3 deadenylation complex catalytic subunit PAN2

PAN2 (USP52, DEDCRF) is the catalytic DEDD-family 3'-to-5' exoribonuclease subunit of the PAN2-PAN3 deadenylation complex, which with Ccr4-Not performs biphasic cytoplasmic poly(A) tail shortening, trimming distal tails in the initial slow phase.

Panacea (medicine)

Panacea (Greek Panakeia, πανάκεια), a universal remedy or cure-all; named for Asclepius's daughter, embodied historically in theriac and Mithridatium, later in patent medicines, now used figuratively.

Panaeolus cinctulus

Panaeolus cinctulus, the banded mottlegill, formerly Panaeolus subbalteatus, is a psilocybin-containing small brown mushroom of the genus Panaeolus, family Galeropsidaceae, growing on dung and manured grassland worldwide, with jet black spores.

Panaeolus cyanescens

Panaeolus cyanescens (Copelandia cyanescens), a blue-bruising dung mushroom of the tropics and subtropics, one of the most potent psilocybin-producing Panaeolus species, with jet black spore print, mottled gills, and hygrophanous cracking cap.

Panagbenga Festival

Panagbenga, the Baguio Flower Festival, is an annual February festival in Baguio City, Philippines; Kankanaey for "season of blooming". Started 1996 after the 1990 earthquake, run by BFFFI, famous for grand street dance and floral float parades.

Panagiotis Roussos

Panagiotis (Panos) Roussos is a physician-scientist in psychiatric genomics who studies the neurobiology of schizophrenia at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center and Mount Sinai, winning a 2013 PECASE award.

Panaka

Panaka is an Ayurvedic summer drink made by infusing water with jaggery and sour fruits, documented in classical texts like Charaka and Sushruta Samhita for thirst, intoxication, and heat disorders; modern clinical evidence remains minimal.

Panama disease

Panama disease, or Fusarium wilt of banana, is caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense. Race 1 destroyed Gros Michel; tropical race 4 now threatens Cavendish bananas worldwide.

Panamanian golden frog

Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki), Cerro Campana stubfoot toad, a critically endangered Panamanian toad, extinct in the wild since 2009 from chytridiomycosis; toxic yellow skin, arm-waving communication, captive breeding and 2025 trial releases.

Panax

Panax (人参属) is the ginseng genus of Araliaceae, published by Linnaeus in 1753 with 15 accepted species native from the Himalaya to Japan and eastern North America; it includes P. ginseng, P. quinquefolius, and P. notoginseng, key medicinal herbs containing ginsenosides.

Panax ginseng

Panax ginseng (인삼, Asian or Korean ginseng), a slow-growing Araliaceae herb native to Korea, northeastern China, and far-eastern Siberia; its ginsenoside-containing root is a widely used supplement with no conclusive clinical evidence for treating any disease.

Panax notoginseng

Panax notoginseng (三七, Sanqi, Tianqi, notoginseng) is a threatened perennial Araliaceae herb native to SE Yunnan and N. Vietnam, cultivated over 400 years in Wenshan; its saponins (ginsenosides R1, Rb1, Rd, Rg1, Re) are used in traditional Chinese medicine and tested for stroke, angina, and kidney disease.

Panc 03.27

Panc 03.27, also written Panc 3.27 or PL11, is a human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line isolated in 1995 and distributed by ATCC as CRL-2549 for cancer research.

Panc 04.03

Panc 04.03 (CVCL_1636, ATCC CRL-2555) is a human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cell line from a 70-year-old male, derived at Johns Hopkins, carrying KRAS G12D and TP53 G245S mutations, used in migration, drug, and radiotherapy studies.

Panc 10.05

Panc 10.05 (Panc-10.05, Pa16C, PL12; CVCL_1639, ATCC CRL-2547) is a human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cell line established in 1992 from an 81-year-old man, sharing a patient of origin with PL45, with KRAS G12D and TP53 I255N mutations.

PANC-1

PANC-1 (Panc-1, CVCL_0480, ATCC CRL-1469) is a human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cell line from a 56-year-old male, reported 1975, carrying KRAS G12D, TP53 R273H, and CDKN2A deletion.

Pancagavya ghrta

Pancagavya ghrta (Pañcagavya Ghṛta) is an official Ayurvedic medicated ghee made from cow dung extract, milk, curd, urine, and ghee, indicated classically for epilepsy, fever, and jaundice and studied by CCRAS for safety and immunomodulation.

Pancaguna Taila

Pancaguna Taila (Pañca guṇa taila, Panchgun Tel) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame-oil formulation, AFI000545, for external use in joint disorders, earache, and wounds via Abhyanga and ear procedures.

Pancakola Curna

Pancakola Curna (Pañcakola cūrṇa, Panchakola Churna) is a classical Ayurvedic five-herb powder of Pippali, Pippalimula, Chavya, Chitraka, and Shunthi, listed in AFI entry 7.10 and used as a digestive for gastrointestinal disorders.

Pancamrta Lauha

Pañcāmṛta Lauha Guggulu (पञ्चामृत लौह गुग्गुलु) is an official Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill (AFI Part II, 5:1) of mercury, sulphur, silver, mica, makshika, and iron bhasmas with guggulu, used for brain disease, ligament pain, and vata disorders.