PDC may refer to:

In science and technology

Chemistry, biology and medicine

Phosducin Phosducin, also known as PDC, is a human protein and gene. It belongs to the phosducin family of proteins. This gene encodes a phosphoprotein, which is located in the outer and inner segments of the rod cells in the retina. This protein may part ...

, a human protein and gene in the retina * Pyridinium dichromate (Cornforth reagent), a chromium-based oxidant *

Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) is a complex of three enzymes that converts pyruvate into acetyl-CoA by a process called pyruvate decarboxylation. Acetyl-CoA may then be used in the citric acid cycle to carry out cellular respiration, and ...

, an enzyme complex *

Plasmacytoid dendritic cell Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are a rare type of immune cell that are known to secrete large quantities of type 1 interferon (IFNs) in response to a viral infection. They circulate in the blood and are found in peripheral lymphoid organs. T ...

Computing

* Peripheral DMA controller * Personal decompression computer, for scuba divers *

Personal Digital Cellular Personal Digital Cellular (PDC) was a 2G mobile telecommunications standard used exclusively in Japan. After a peak of nearly 80 million subscribers to PDC, it had 46 million subscribers in December 2005, and was slowly phased out in favor of 3 ...

, a Japanese 2G mobile phone standard * Primary

Domain Controller A domain controller (DC) is a Server (computing), server that responds to security authentication requests within a computer network domain. It is a Network (computing), network server that is responsible for allowing Host (network), host access to ...

Professional Developers Conference Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was a series of conferences for software developers; the conference was held infrequently to coincide with beta releases of the Microsoft Windows, Windows operating system, and showcased topic ...

, by Microsoft *

Programme Delivery Control Programme delivery control (PDC) is specified by the standard ETS 300 231 (ETSI EN 300 231), published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This specifies the signals sent as hidden codes in the teletext service, indicat ...

, a teletext standard

Other uses in science and technology

* Power distribution center, electrical equipment * Pulsed DC, type of electric current *

Pyroclastic density current A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot volcanic gas, gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average ...

or pyroclastic flow of a volcano

Politics and government

Centrist Democratic Party (Rwanda) The Centrist Democratic Party (; , PDC) is a political party in Rwanda. It is supportive of the government of Paul Kagame. History The party was established as the Christian Democratic Party () in 1991 by Jean-Népomuscène Nayinzira.Aimable Tw ...

Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (, CVP), also called the Christian Democratic Party (, PDC), Democratic People's Party (, PPD) and Swiss Christian Democratic Party (, PCD), was a Christian democracy, Christian democratic Li ...

* Partido Demócrata Cristiano (disambiguation), several parties in Central & South America *

Christian Democratic Party (Brazil) The Christian Democratic Party (, PDC) was a political party in Brazil founded in 1945. The PDC, a small party supporting traditional Christian values, never achieved electoral success and was banned by the military government in 1965. The party ...

(''Partido Democrata Cristão'') *

Catalan European Democratic Party The Catalan European Democratic Party (, PDeCAT, sometimes stylized as PDECat), initially branded as the Catalan Democratic Party (, PDC), was a liberal political party in Spain that supported Catalan independence. The party was founded in Bar ...

* Portland Development Commission, later Prosper Portland, Oregon, US *

Washington State Public Disclosure Commission The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) is an agency of the Washington state government that regulates candidates, campaigns and lobbyists. It enforces the state's disclosure and campaign finances laws, and provides public access ...

, US * Former

Constitutional Democratic Party The Constitutional Democratic Party (, K-D), also called Constitutional Democrats and formally the Party of People's Freedom (), was a political party in the Russian Empire that promoted Western constitutional monarchy—among other policies� ...

, Italy *

Parlementair Documentatie Centrum The (PDC; ), is an institute connected to Leiden University that documents the parliamentary history of the Netherlands. It is part of the Montesquieu Institute on Campus The Hague, and situated at Lange Voorhout 86. Its function is to collec ...

(Parliamentary Documentation Centre), (Netherlands), an institute that documents Dutch parliamentary history

Organizations

PDC (gang) The PDC (Pray Days Change, Public Demand Cartel, or Poverty Driven Children, formerly Peel Dem Crew or Pussy Drugs Cash) was a street gang based in Brixton, London, England, mainly the Angell Town Estate. During the 1990s, they were the larges ...

, later rap group, London, UK *

Pacific Disaster Center Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is an applied science, information and technology center, working to reduce disaster risks and impacts on life, property, and the economies worldwide. PDC's products and services are used to support sound decision ma ...

, disaster preparedness institute based in Hawaii *

Partisan Defense Committee The Partisan Defense Committee describes itself as "a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people." The PDC works in accordance with the po ...

, a Trotskyist legal defense organization *

Phi Delta Chi Phi Delta Chi ( or Phi Dex) is a coed professional fraternity founded in 1883, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was formed to advance the science of pharmacy and its allied interests and to foster and promote a fraternal s ...

, pharmaceutical fraternity at the University of Michigan *

Philosophy Documentation Center The Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC) is a non-profit publisher and resource center that provides access to scholarly materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines. It publishes academic journa ...

, a publisher *

Producers Distributing Corporation Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC) was a short-lived Hollywood film distribution company, organized in 1924 and dissolved in 1927. In its brief heyday, film director Cecil B. DeMille was its primary talent and owner of its Culver City� ...

, 1920s US film company *

Professional Darts Corporation The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the Wor ...

, operates darts competitions *

Publications Distribution Cooperative Publications Distribution Cooperative (PDC) was set up in 1976 to distribute radical, socialist, feminist, green/ecology and community publications in Britain to the book and newsagent trade. History In Britain, the 1970s was a time of change i ...

Other uses

Pennsylvania Dutch language Pennsylvania Dutch (, or ) or Pennsylvania German is a Variety (linguistics), variety of Palatine German dialects, Palatine German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the U ...

(ISO 639-3 language code) * Pocket Dream Console, a game console * Permaculture Design Certificate course on sustainable systems by Geoff Lawton *

Playa del Carmen Playa del Carmen, known colloquially as Playa, is a resort city located along the Caribbean Sea in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is part of the municipality of Solidaridad. As of 2020, the city's population was just over 3 ...

, a resort city in southeastern Mexico {{disambiguation