 Birefringence
"Birefringence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The property of nonisotropic media, such as crystals, whereby a single incident beam of light traverses the medium as two beams, each plane-polarized, the planes being at right angles to each other. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D001718
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.590.080
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| Concept/Terms |
Birefringence- Birefringence
- Birefringences
- Birefraction
- Birefractions
- Double Refraction
- Double Refractions
- Refraction, Double
- Refractions, Double
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Birefringence" by people in Profiles.
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Nakata M, Chen D, Shao R, Korblova E, Maclennan JE, Walba DM, Clark NA. Electro-optic response of the anticlinic, antiferroelectric liquid-crystal phase of a biaxial bent-core molecule with tilt angle near 45?. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2012 Mar; 85(3 Pt 1):031704.
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Frazer-Abel AA, Hagerman PJ. Variation of the acceptor-anticodon interstem angles among mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial tRNAs. J Mol Biol. 2004 Oct 15; 343(2):313-25.
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Frazer-Abel AA, Hagerman PJ. Determination of the angle between the acceptor and anticodon stems of a truncated mitochondrial tRNA. J Mol Biol. 1999 Jan 15; 285(2):581-93.
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Kippelen B, Marder SR, Hendrickx E, Maldonado JL, Guillemet G, Volodin BL, Steele DD, Enami Y, Yao YJ, Wang JF, R?ckel H, Erskine L, Peyghambarian N. Infrared photorefractive polymers and their applications for imaging. Science. 1998 Jan 02; 279(5347):54-7.
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Leehey MA, Squassoni CA, Friederich MW, Mills JB, Hagerman PJ. A noncanonical tertiary conformation of a human mitochondrial transfer RNA. Biochemistry. 1995 Dec 19; 34(50):16235-9.
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Vikstrom KL, Rovner AS, Saez CG, Bravo-Zehnder M, Straceski AJ, Leinwand LA. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain expressed in nonmuscle cells forms thick filaments in the presence of substoichiometric amounts of light chains. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 1993; 26(3):192-204.
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