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Ganaxolone
Ganaxolone, sold as Ztalmy, is a synthetic neuroactive steroid that modulates GABA receptors and is used as an antiseizure medication, approved in 2022 as the first treatment for seizures in CDKL5 deficiency disorder.
Gandamala Kandana Rasa
Gandamala Kandana Rasa (Gaṇḍamālā kaṇḍana rasa), also Gandamalakandana Rasa, is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral rasayoga with purified mercury, sulphur, calcined metals, and herbs, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000448) at 250–500 mg for goiter and cervical lymphadenitis.
Gandhaka
Gandhaka (गन्धक) is purified sulphur in Ayurveda's Rasashastra, base of Gandhaka Rasayana; purified by ghee-milk Shodhana, used for skin diseases, studied in 180-day rat toxicity trials.
Gandhaka rasayana
Gandhaka rasayana (गन्धक रसायन) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral rejuvenative based on purified sulphur, with fifteen textual variants; used chiefly for skin diseases, dosed 1–3 g per the Ayurvedic Formulary of India.
Gandhaka vati
Gandhaka vati (Gandhaka vaṭī, AFI000415) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral tablet of purified sulphur and mercury with herbs and salts, dosed at 2 g, indicated for skin diseases (twaka roga).
Gandhakadya malahara
Gandhakadya malahara (Gandhakādi malahara), an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral ointment from Rasa Tarangini's 8th Taranga, made of purified sulphur, borax, girisindura, camphor in sesame oil and beeswax, used externally for itching, scabies, fungal infection, and eczema.
Gandharvahasta taila
Gandharvahasta taila (गन्धर्वहस्त तैल), also Gandharvahastadi taila, is a classical Ayurvedic medicated castor-oil formulation from the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, dosed 6–12 ml orally for abscess, abdominal disorders, and Vata conditions.
Gandharvahastadi kvatha curna
Gandharvahastadi kvatha curna (Gandharvahastadi Kashayam) is an official Ayurvedic Formulary of India coarse-powder decoction formula (AFI Part I 4:5, from Sahasrayoga) of eight equal-part herbs led by castor root (Ricinus communis), dose 48 g, used mainly for vata disorders such as low back pain; distinct from a nine-ingredient Yogaratnakara blend of the same name.
Gandhi Medical College
Gandhi Medical College (गाँधी मेडिकल कॉलेज) is a government medical college in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, inaugurated in 1955 and attached to Hamidia Hospital, a 1,360-bed tertiary care teaching hospital.
Ganes C. Sen
Ganes C. Sen, also published as Ganes Sen, is a molecular biologist known for five decades of interferon research; at Yale he identified the antiviral enzymes PKR and RNase L.
Ganesh Raghu
Ganesh Raghu is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington known for clinical trials and international guidelines in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring lung disease.
Ganetespib
Ganetespib (STA-9090), a second-generation resorcinol HSP90 inhibitor developed by Synta Pharmaceuticals for cancer; its phase III GALAXY-2 lung cancer trial was stopped for futility and development is inactive.
Gang Greg Wang
Gang Greg Wang (王刚) is a chromatin biologist and cancer epigenetics researcher, a professor at the Duke Cancer Institute known for work on the DNMT3A R882 mutation in acute myeloid leukemia.
Gang Zheng
Gang Zheng is a medical biophysicist and nanomedicine researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, known for porphysome nanotechnology for cancer imaging and treatment.
Gangliocytoma
Gangliocytoma: rare WHO grade I mixed neuronal-glial CNS tumor of dysplastic ganglion cells in non-neoplastic glial stroma, mostly temporal lobe, presenting with seizures; no defined molecular signature.
Ganglioglioma
Ganglioglioma, a rare WHO grade 1 glioneuronal brain tumor of children and young adults, mixed glial and neuronal cells, temporal lobe, seizures, BRAF V600E, treated by surgical resection.
Ganglion cyst
Ganglion cyst (Bible bump): benign mucin-filled lump from a joint capsule or tendon sheath, most often dorsal wrist (scapholunate origin). Most common hand/wrist soft-tissue mass; 60-70% of such masses; often resolves untreated.
Ganglion mother cell
Ganglion mother cell (GMC): the intermediate neural progenitor of the Drosophila CNS, budded off by asymmetric neuroblast division and dividing once into two neurons or glia, specified by Prospero, Brat, Numb, and temporal gene cascades.
Ganglionectomy
Ganglionectomy: surgical removal of a ganglion. Covers autonomic/sensory ganglion removal (sympathetic, dorsal root, Gasserian) for pain and hyperhidrosis, and wrist ganglion cyst excision, with recurrence 6-41% after surgery.
Ganglioneuroblastoma
Ganglioneuroblastoma, also called GNB-intermixed or GNB-nodular, is a rare pediatric neuroblastic tumor of sympathetic tissue mixing neuroblasts and ganglion cells, intermediate between neuroblastoma and ganglioneuroma, classified by the INPC.
Ganglioneuroma
Ganglioneuroma: a rare benign tumor of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system, made of mature ganglion cells and Schwann cells; most often adrenal, retroperitoneal, or mediastinal; treated by surgery when symptomatic, with excellent prognosis.
Ganglionic eminence
The ganglionic eminence is a transient embryonic structure in the ventral telencephalon that produces the basal ganglia's neurons and most inhibitory interneurons of the cortex and hippocampus.
Ganglioside
Gangliosides are sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids, named via Svennerholm's GM1/GD1a code, most abundant in brain membranes; defects cause gangliosidoses, and GM1 is trialed in Parkinson's and spinal cord injury.
Gangrene
Gangrene: death of body tissue from blocked blood supply (ischemia), bacterial infection, or both; types include dry, wet, and gas gangrene (Clostridium). Major risk factors are diabetes and peripheral arterial disease; treatment is debridement, antibiotics, and revascularization.
Ganirelix
Ganirelix (Antagon, FYREMADEL) is a synthetic decapeptide GnRH antagonist, 250 mcg subcutaneous daily, FDA-approved July 29, 1999 as the first GnRH antagonist, to prevent premature LH surges during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in IVF.
Ganitumab
Ganitumab (AMG 479) is Amgen's fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody against IGF-1R, binding the L2 domain to block IGF-1 and IGF-2. Its phase 3 pancreatic cancer trial stopped for futility; the drug was discontinued.
Ganja
Ganja: Hindi/Sanskrit term for cannabis, specifically dried female flower tops; brought to Jamaica by Indian indentured laborers in 1845, sacred to Rastafari, decriminalized there in 2015.
Ganjiang Lingzhu Decoction
甘姜苓术汤 (Ganjiang Lingzhu Decoction, 肾着汤), a four-herb formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolüe for cold-damp kidney strain with lumbar pain; licorice, Atractylodes, dried ginger, Poria.
Ganlu Yin
甘露饮 (Ganlu Yin, Sweet Dew Decoction), a ten-herb classical Chinese formula from the Song dynasty Taiping Huimin Hejiju Fang, nourishes yin and clears damp-heat for mouth sores, gum swelling, sore throat, and jaundice; distinct from Ganlu Xiaodu Dan.
Gannet
Gannets (Morus) are large plunge-diving seabirds of Sulidae, distinct from boobies (Sula). Three species: Northern (North Atlantic), Cape (Vulnerable, southern Africa), Australasian; one-egg clutches, colonies, up to 2 m wingspan.