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Elacytarabine

Elacytarabine (CP-4055, Elacyt) is a lipophilic elaidic acid ester prodrug of cytarabine for relapsed/refractory AML; transporter-independent uptake, but its phase III CLAVELA trial showed no survival benefit over investigator's choice.

Eladi Curna

Eladi Churna (Elādi Cūrṇa, Eladi Choornam) is a classical Ayurvedic herbal powder led by cardamom (Ela), official in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI Part-I, 7:5) with nine equal-part ingredients, used for kasa, shvasa, and vomiting.

Eladi ghrta

Eladi ghṛta (Elādi ghṛta) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated ghee formulation from Ashtanga Hrudayam, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India Part I 6:6 at 12 g, with cardamom-led herbs in cow ghee, used for abdominal pain, anemia, emaciation, eye diseases, and rejuvenation, distinct from Eladi gutika, churna, and taila.

ELADI GUTIKA

Eladi Gutika (Elaadi Gutika), an Ayurvedic polyherbal pill in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India Part-II Vol-III, made of cardamom, cinnamon, long pepper, licorice, dates, raisins, sugar, and honey; traditionally used for cough, asthma, vomiting, vertigo, and haemoptysis.

Eladocagene exuparvovec

Eladocagene exuparvovec (Upstaza, Kebilidi) is a PTC Therapeutics AAV2 gene therapy delivering the DDC gene for AADC deficiency, approved in the EU in 2022 and by FDA in 2024.

Eladya Modaka

Eladya Modaka (Elādya modaka, एलाद्यमोदक) is a semisolid sweetened Ayurvedic avaleha from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000087, 12 g dose) for madatyaya, alcohol-related and digestive disorders.

Elaeagnaceae

Elaeagnaceae, the oleaster family (oleaster, sea buckthorn), is a Rosales family of three genera, Elaeagnus, Hippophae, Shepherdia, and ca. 100 Northern Hemisphere species with silvery scales, petal-less flowers, and Frankia nitrogen-fixing root nodules.

Elaeagnus

Elaeagnus (oleaster genus), family Elaeagnaceae, 93 accepted shrub/tree species with silvery scaled leaves, nitrogen-fixing Frankia nodules; includes invasive autumn olive and Russian olive and ornamental hybrids.

Elaeagnus angustifolia

Elaeagnus angustifolia, Russian olive or oleaster, a thorny deciduous Elaeagnaceae tree native from eastern Europe to temperate Asia; nitrogen-fixing, salt-tolerant, invasive in western North American riparian areas, and a traditional medicinal and food plant.

Elaeis

Elaeis, the oil palm genus (Arecaceae), includes African oil palm Elaeis guineensis and American E. oleifera; native to tropical Africa and tropical America, it supplies about 40% of world vegetable oil.

Elaeis guineensis

Elaeis guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tropical Arecaceae palm native to West and Central Africa, source of palm and palm-kernel oil; highest-yielding oil crop, grown on about 21 million hectares, mostly Indonesia and Malaysia.

Elaenia

Elaenia, genus of tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) established by Sundevall in 1836; about 21 cryptic, crested Neotropical species from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, split into three Pleistocene-diversified clades.

Elaeocarpaceae

Elaeocarpaceae Juss. (1816), a mainly tropical family of 12 genera and c. 600 species in Oxalidales; largest genera Elaeocarpaceae Elaeocarpus (c. 350) and Sloanea (c. 150); includes former Tremandraceae; absent from continental Africa.

Elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus (rudraksha, quandong) is the largest genus of Elaeocarpaceae, about 350-483 species of Old World tropical trees with fringed petals, blue sculpted drupes, and beads, timber, and medicinal uses.

Elafibranor

Elafibranor (GFT505, Iqirvo) is a dual PPAR-alpha/delta agonist approved in 2024 for primary biliary cholangitis after UDCA failure; its NASH program was discontinued after phase 3 failure.

Elagolix

Elagolix (Orilissa, Oriahnn) is the first FDA-approved oral non-peptide GnRH receptor antagonist, approved in 2018 for endometriosis pain and in 2020 with hormonal add-back for fibroid heavy menstrual bleeding.

Elaine A. Elion

Elaine A. Elion is a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that the yeast protein Ste5 tethers kinases in a MAP kinase cascade.

Elaine A. Ostrander

Elaine A. Ostrander is an American geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute who began the canine genome project in 1993 and studies human cancer genetics.

Elaine Dzierzak

Elaine Dzierzak is a developmental biologist known for showing that blood stem cells are born inside the embryo, in the AGM region, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Elaine Esposito

Elaine Esposito (1934-1978), the "sleeping beauty," fell into a coma aged six during a 1941 Chicago appendectomy and never woke, holding the Guinness longest-coma record at 37 years 111 days until her death in Florida.

Elaine Fuchs

Elaine Fuchs (born 1950) is an American cell biologist who studies skin stem cells and tissue repair, known for work on keratin genes and hair-follicle stem cells.

Elaine Hsiao

Elaine Y. Hsiao is a microbiome researcher at UCLA who studies how gut microbes influence brain development, known for work connecting gut bacteria to autism and epilepsy.

Elaine M. Hylek

Elaine M. Hylek is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at Boston University, known for research defining how intensely blood should be thinned to prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation.

Elaine M. Tobin

Elaine M. Tobin is an American plant molecular biologist who joined UCLA in 1975, showed that phytochrome controls gene transcription, and discovered the plant circadian clock component CCA1.

Elaine R. Mardis

Elaine R. Mardis, also known as Elaine Mardis, is an American cancer genomics researcher who co-led the first whole cancer genome sequencing and now leads the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Elaine S. Jaffe

Elaine S. Jaffe is an American hematopathologist who heads the Hematopathology Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for her 1974 paper showing nodular lymphoma arises from follicular B cells.

Elaine Tuomanen

Elaine Tuomanen is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, known for research on how Streptococcus pneumoniae invades the human host.

Elamipretide

Elamipretide (SS-31, MTP-131, Bendavia, Forzinity) is a cardiolipin-binding mitochondria-targeting tetrapeptide, D-Arg-Dmt-Lys-Phe-NH2; FDA accelerated approval 2025 for Barth syndrome, negative MMPOWER-3 trial in mitochondrial myopathy.

Elan D. Louis

Elan D. Louis, also known as Elan Louis, is an American neurologist who is Professor and Chair of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for research on essential tremor.

Elanir kuzambu (elanirkuzambu)

Elanir Kuzambu (nālikerāñjana, Elaneer Kuzhambu), Ayurvedic anjana AFI 13:1 from Sahasrayoga verse 52; tender coconut water decoction with triphala, barberry, licorice, camphor, honey; applied to inner eyelids for corneal ulcer, pterygium, early cataract.