 Light
"Light" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
That portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared range.
| Descriptor ID |
D008027
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.358.500.505.650 G01.590.540 G01.750.250.650 G01.750.770.578
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| Concept/Terms |
Light- Light
- Photoradiation
- Photoradiations
Light, Visible- Light, Visible
- Visible Light
- Radiation, Visible
- Visible Radiation
- Radiations, Visible
- Visible Radiations
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Light" by people in this website by year, and whether "Light" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2000 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2001 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2002 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2003 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2004 | 4 | 9 | 13 | | 2005 | 8 | 8 | 16 | | 2006 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2007 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | 2008 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2009 | 4 | 13 | 17 | | 2010 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2011 | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 2012 | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 2013 | 12 | 10 | 22 | | 2014 | 6 | 8 | 14 | | 2015 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2016 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2017 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2018 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2019 | 4 | 7 | 11 | | 2020 | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 2021 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Light" by people in Profiles.
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Stritzel WJ, Levy C, Ravenel JR, Strnad HK, Osman M, Pr?vost ED, Root DH, Reuter JD, Sloan AM, Spencer RL. Red Light Sensitivity of Non-image and Image Forming Visual Systems of Laboratory Rodents: Circadian Disruption and Behavioral Detection. J Neurosci. 2025 May 14; 45(20).
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Duston A, Holtman S, Bowen AE, Cree MG, Nadeau K, Wright KP, Simon SL, Diniz Behn CG. Sex Differences in Circadian Timing and Biological Night in Adolescents. J Biol Rhythms. 2025 Feb; 40(1):7-18.
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Hartstein LE, Wright KP, Diniz Behn C, Stowe SR, LeBourgeois MK. The Circadian Response to Evening Light Spectra in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights. J Biol Rhythms. 2025 Apr; 40(2):181-193.
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Tahia F, Ma D, Stephenson DJ, Basu SK, Del Mar NA, Lenchik N, Kochat H, Brown K, Chalfant CE, Mandal N. Inhibiting De Novo Biosynthesis of Ceramide by L-Cycloserine Can Prevent Light-Induced Retinal Degeneration in Albino BALB/c Mice. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Dec 13; 25(24).
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Xiao JF, Luo W, Mani A, Barba H, Solanki A, Droho S, Lavine JA, Skondra D. Intravitreal Metformin Protects Against Choroidal Neovascularization and Light-Induced Retinal Degeneration. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Oct 22; 25(21).
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Plavchak CL, Werner AZ, Betz E, Salvach?a D, Beckham GT, Kim Ratanathanawongs Williams S. Determination of particle number concentration for biological particles using AF4-MALS: Dependencies on light scattering model and refractive index. J Chromatogr A. 2024 Nov 22; 1737:465460.
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Pousty D, Ma B, Mathews C, Halanur M, Mamane H, Linden KG. Biofilm inactivation using LED systems emitting germicidal UV and antimicrobial blue light. Water Res. 2024 Dec 01; 267:122449.
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Stowe SR, LeBourgeois MK, Diniz Behn C. Modeling the Effects of Napping and Non-napping Patterns of Light Exposure on the Human Circadian Oscillator. J Biol Rhythms. 2023 10; 38(5):492-509.
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Tay JW, Cameron JC. Asymmetric survival in single-cell lineages of cyanobacteria in response to photodamage. Photosynth Res. 2023 Mar; 155(3):289-297.
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Wang W, Yuan RK, Mitchell JF, Zitting KM, St Hilaire MA, Wyatt JK, Scheer FAJL, Wright KP, Brown EN, Ronda JM, Klerman EB, Duffy JF, Dijk DJ, Czeisler CA. Desynchronizing the sleep---wake cycle from circadian timing to assess their separate contributions to physiology and behaviour and to estimate intrinsic circadian period. Nat Protoc. 2023 02; 18(2):579-603.
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