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Dimethylallyltransferase
Dimethylallyltransferase (EC 2.5.1.1, dimethylallyltranstransferase, prenyltransferase) condenses DMAPP and IPP to geranyl diphosphate in isoprenoid and cholesterol biosynthesis; the name also covers tRNA, adenylate (cytokinin), and aromatic DMATS-type dimethylallyltransferases.
Dimethylglycine dehydrogenase deficiency
Dimethylglycine dehydrogenase deficiency (DMGDH deficiency) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive glycine metabolism disorder, known from a single case with fish-like odor, muscle fatigue, elevated creatine kinase, and 100-fold raised serum dimethylglycine due to the homozygous H109R DMGDH variant.
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is an abundant marine organosulfur osmolyte made by phytoplankton, algae, bacteria, corals, and some plants via methylation, transamination, or decarboxylation pathways, and degraded to DMS, methanethiol, or DMSOP.
Dimethyltryptamine
N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an indole alkaloid psychedelic, the active compound in ayahuasca, an endogenous sigma-1 receptor agonist, rapidly metabolized by MAO-A with a 9–12 minute intravenous half-life.
Dimethylvinphos
Dimethylvinphos (甲基毒虫畏), also called chlorfenvinphos-methyl, is an organophosphate rice insecticide introduced in 1966, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (IRAC 1B) with rat oral LD50 97.5 mg/kg, not approved in the EU and considered obsolete.
Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon, an early Permian sail-backed synapsid (pelycosaur, sphenacodontid) from Texas and Germany, is a mammal relative, not a dinosaur; it went extinct about 60 million years before dinosaurs and likely used its sail for thermoregulation.
Dimexano
Dimexano, also known as dixanthogen or dimexan, is an obsolete xanthogen disulfide herbicide, desiccant, and plant growth regulator formerly used on vegetables, not approved in the EU.
Diminazene
Diminazene, sold under the brand name Berenil, is an aromatic diamidine veterinary antiprotozoal drug introduced in 1955, and the most commonly used trypanocide in cattle, sheep, and goats.
Diminished ovarian reserve
Diminished ovarian reserve (DOR): reduced oocyte quantity with regular menses, assessed by AMH and antral follicle count; predicts IVF oocyte yield but not independent fertility, and oocyte quality is similar to age-matched women.
Dimiter S. Dimitrov
Dimiter S. Dimitrov is a virologist and antibody engineer who spent 27 years at the National Cancer Institute before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2017.
Dimitri Krainc
Dimitri Krainc is a Slovenian-born neurologist and neuroscientist who became chair of neurology at Northwestern University in 2013, known for research on Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.
Dimitri Kullmann
Dimitri M. Kullmann is a British neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for synaptic plasticity and epilepsy gene therapy.
Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis
Dimitrios Kontoyiannis is a Greek-American physician-scientist in infectious diseases at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, known for research on invasive fungal infections in leukemia and transplant patients.
Dimitrios Stamou
Dimitrios Stamou (born 1974 in Athens) is a Greek professor of bionanotechnology and nanomedicine at the University of Copenhagen, leading a bio-nanotechnology laboratory since 2004.
Dimitris Kioussis
Dimitris Kioussis, born in Greece in 1949, is a molecular immunologist known for discovering the locus control region of the human CD2 gene and for his work on gene expression in developing immune cells.
Dimitris Thanos
Dimitris Thanos is a Greek molecular biologist known for his work on the enhanceosome, and since 2006 a director and vice president at the Academy of Athens' BRFAA.
Dimocarpus
Dimocarpus (龙眼属) is a Sapindaceae genus of Asian and Australian trees, source of the longan fruit (dragon-eye); six to nine species, type D. longan, lectotype D. lichi, distinguished by translucent aril and warty fruit.
Dimorphism and virulence traits of pathogenic yeasts
Dimorphism and virulence traits of pathogenic yeasts: the yeast-hypha switch in Candida albicans and thermodimorphic fungi (Histoplasma, Blastomyces, Coccidioides), its regulation by temperature and signaling pathways, and roles in invasion, biofilms, and dissemination.
DIMOSPAF study
DIMOSPAF (NCT02563379) is a registered observational study by Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, testing whether abnormal 24-hour blood pressure dipping and morning surge associate with silent paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in hypertension; no results posted.
Dimoxystrobin
Dimoxystrobin, a BASF strobilurin (QoI) fungicide launched in 2004 for cereals, binds the cytochrome bc1 Qo site; EU approval was not renewed in 2023 over groundwater metabolites 505M08 and 505M09.
Dimple
Dimple: a small skin indentation, most often on the cheek, caused by a bifid zygomaticus major muscle tethering the skin during smiling; also chin dimples, genetics, and dimpleplasty.
Dimpropyridaz
Dimpropyridaz (Axalion Active, Efficon) is a BASF pyridazine pyrazolecarboxamide proinsecticide, sole member of IRAC Group 36, silencing chordotonal neurons upstream of TRPV channels to control aphids, whiteflies, and other sucking pests.
DIMS trial
DIMS trial (NCT03165812), A Diabetes Improvement in Medical Therapy Versus SADJB Study: Malaysian trial comparing SADJB-SG bariatric surgery with intensive medical therapy for type 2 diabetes in Asian patients with BMI 23.5-30 kg/m2; 84 planned participants, no results posted.
Dina Zielinski
Dina Zielinski is a bioinformatician and computational biologist known for co-developing DNA Fountain, the 2017 DNA data storage technique, and now works at WhiteLab Genomics in France.
Dinaciclib
Dinaciclib, also known as SCH 727965 or MK-7965, is an experimental anticancer drug that blocks CDK1, CDK2, CDK5, and CDK9, tested in trials without regulatory approval.
Dinah S. Singer
Dinah S. Singer is an American molecular biologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Biology and co-chaired the Cancer Moonshot's Blue Ribbon Panel.
Dinaric race
Dinaric race (Adriatic race): a historical physical-anthropology type from Deniker, defined by tall stature, brachycephaly, long face, aquiline nose; used in Yugoslav, Ustasha, and Nazi racial thought, later abandoned.
DINE study
DINE study (Developmental Impact of NICU Exposures), an NIH ECHO cohort of ~800 preterm children from four parent studies (PROP, TOLSURF, PENUT, NICU-HEALTH), recruited 2010–2020, studying NICU phthalate, metal, and environmental exposures and long-term neurodevelopment; distinct from DINE-Normal, DINE-CD, and prostate DINE trials.
Dinevenator
Dinevenator, originally described as Saurornitholestes robustus in 2006, is a troodontid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of New Mexico, named as a new genus in 2026.
Ding Xue
Ding Xue, also known as Xue Ding, is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for research on programmed cell death in C. elegans.